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Why do we text instead of talk?

The Why Factor

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Introduction

Garry turk is a spoken word artist and professional poet. He wrote his first poem six years ago after a relationship break up, and turned it into a short film called look up. Embedded in the video is the story of a man lost on the corner of a street who asks a passing woman for directions. They fall in love, and we see them pass through all the phases of life,. kids, grand kids, even death. Then the story comes back on itself to show the same man on the street looking down at his phone as that woman walks past. They never speak. So look up from your phone. We have a finite existence, a set number of days. Don

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