Are We Creating a World for the Next Generation?

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There was a state that i found really alarming early on, where you were talking about loneliness and about, uh, japanese youth not wanting to date because it's essentially too much hassle. That's my fear when i look at technical innovation and robots, and i and we, you know, where everything becomes customized right to what we want. And so i worry whether we're creating a world for the next generation, or the next couple of generations, where there's just people are unwilling to compromise.

Eric Barker is not a people person. “Getting me to write a relationship book,” he says, “is like asking Godzilla to improve the infrastructure in your city.” But he did it anyway. Guided by leading social psychologists, Eric went on a journey to understand what he was getting wrong about relationships — and what he could do to turn things around. The result is “Plays Well With Others,” a guide to friendship, intimacy, loneliness, and belonging that our curator Daniel Pink says will “revitalize your life.”

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