Is Technology a Cause of Loneliness?

Emma Watson: One of the most distressing realities of our time is diminished friendship. In theory, thanks to technology, we should be able to keep up with each other far better than we have ever been able to do before. But in reality, any media puts something in the middle between people that attenuates the signal or shrinks the signal. We've shrunk it down when were doing this on video, so we see each other's faces. It's prabably megabits, but still, that's a thousand times less rich than being together in person. You're not in contact the way that we are meant to be as human beings.