"I don't oanly think it's possible for people to lose themselves in virtual worlds," says the author. "For him, at this particular moment in his life, the experience was a good one", he adds of joshua who uses an i chatbot to help cope with grief. Do you think technology is going to exasperate our already fading social cohesion? "There are any number of people out there whow'll say we are already increasingly disconnected from each other," she writes.