Encouraging people to mistake digital companions for real friends is prima facie unethical. Encouraging people to have imaginary friends is no solution to social isolation. There is a risk that the ...

I was not aware of the epidemic of loneliness until speaking on the subject and receiving hundreds of responses. This is a matter of life and death. Technology and social media have connected the ...

Why are we celebrating isolation? Technology may be rewarding avoidance—ghosting, quiet quitting, online hostility—at the ...

Loneliness/social isolation isn’t just a transient emotion or situation, it’s turned into a global crisis with serious public health consequences. In 2023, then–US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, ...

Profound shifts have occurred in work practices since the millennium, partly triggered by the pandemic of the early 2020s, but also heavily impacted by technology-based working. 1 This has resulted in ...