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How Tech Can Make Us More—And Less—Empathetic

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A transfeminine non-binary person and transmasculine gender-nonconforming person looking at a phone with upset expressions
Credit: Zackary Drucker/Gender Spectrum Collection


Much of technology was built on the promise of connecting people across the world, fostering a sense of community. But as much as technology gives us, it also may be taking away one of the things that makes us most human—empathy. When we hunker down in front of screens and behind usernames we reduce our capacity to understand someone else’s perspective.

Journalist Kaitlin Ugolick Phillips, author of the new book The Future of Feeling, joins Ira to talk about whether technology has doomed us to live in a society without empathy, or whether it can actually help fix the problem it creates.

Plus, is it ever really possible to “walk in someone else’s shoes?” Courtney Cogburn, an associate professor of social work at Columbia University, is working to find that out. She joins Ira to talk about a VR experiment designed to help you feel what it’s like to live the life of someone else.

Read an excerpt from Phillips’ new book, The Future Of Feeling.



The Book blurb (and how to order) provides a bit more er, granularity--also too: a word known only-to *cough* the Tech-ept
(is that recursive; get Brownie Points?) NOOO..? [you Meanies!]

Carrion. Methinks that absence-of-Empathy [the very-Core of the *DJT-Menace as it IS who-he-IS] ..just may be on the same Scale/aka, As Dire re Extinction 'prospects' as The Broiling Denouement, since:
it is a higher barrier to Learn! How to communicate-extremely-well than it is--to Use the Techno to start collecting Carbon by all means imaginable: each one of us here could spawn n-cockamamie+brilliant approaches to that, in 5 min.

(Drew might well have the best chances amongst us?) of emulating the style of Interviewer in Mike's link to full-screen Idiocyinaction, I wot. But wtf do I know-ferShure..

* PS: al-punte LeeringRPD chimes in: 'ow do you know 'e's a king? Love. It.
Collapse Edited by Ashton Feb. 7, 2020, 04:56:58 PM EST
Serendipity Strikes: on SciFri (!) re the core of these communications ... today
Science Friday TGIF!

How Tech Can Make Us More—And Less—Empathetic

Image
A transfeminine non-binary person and transmasculine gender-nonconforming person looking at a phone with upset expressions
Credit: Zackary Drucker/Gender Spectrum Collection


Much of technology was built on the promise of connecting people across the world, fostering a sense of community. But as much as technology gives us, it also may be taking away one of the things that makes us most human—empathy. When we hunker down in front of screens and behind usernames we reduce our capacity to understand someone else’s perspective.

Journalist Kaitlin Ugolick Phillips, author of the new book The Future of Feeling, joins Ira to talk about whether technology has doomed us to live in a society without empathy, or whether it can actually help fix the problem it creates.

Plus, is it ever really possible to “walk in someone else’s shoes?” Courtney Cogburn, an associate professor of social work at Columbia University, is working to find that out. She joins Ira to talk about a VR experiment designed to help you feel what it’s like to live the life of someone else.

Read an excerpt from Phillips’ new book, The Future Of Feeling.



The Book blurb (and how to order) provides a bit more er, granularity--also too: a word known only-to *cough* the Tech-ept
(is that recursive; get Brownie Points?) NOOO..? [you Meanies!]

Carrion. Methinks that absence-of-Empathy [the very-Core of the DJT-Menace as it IS who-he-IS] ..just may be on the same Scale/aka, As Dire re Extinction 'prospects' as The Broiling Denouement, since:
it is a higher barrier to Learn! How to communicate-extremely-well than it is--to Use the Techno to start collecting Carbon by all means imaginable: each one of us here could spawn n-cockamamie+brilliant approaches to that, in 5 min.

(Drew might well have the best chances amongst us?) of emulating the style of Interviewer in Mike's link to full-screen Idiocyinaction, I wot. But wtf do I know-ferShure..
     What dreams may come - (rcareaga) - (21)
         Seconded verbatim, of course. Incitatus: earns at least the laurel leaves ..great Theater :-þ - (Ashton)
         It could be worse. - (mmoffitt) - (3)
             Rubio's piece is about as good as pure-sophistry+logic can do.. with/to Language - (Ashton)
             OTOH, Britain is still superior to the US. - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                 Quite a lovely Q.E.D., innit? (UK may be hornswoggle-able by Prof-liar Pols), for a time - (Ashton)
         Predictions - (pwhysall) - (12)
             Disagree. - (mmoffitt)
             *Recognition*.. over the next precious months determines everything here.. - (Ashton) - (10)
                 Re: *Recognition*.. over the next precious months determines everything here.. - (dmcarls) - (1)
                     never read a book where they are afraid to put out a synopsis -NT - (boxley)
                 STOP THAT! - (drook) - (7)
                     It's not the same 'THAT'. - (Ashton)
                     "as though they're too stupid to have seen it..." Point of Order. They *ARE* that stupid. - (mmoffitt) - (5)
                         Watch again ... pay particular attention to the last 3 words -NT - (drook) - (4)
                             And the question? - (mmoffitt) - (2)
                                 alas.. 'Stupid..' IS a grade-school epithet too-oft conflated with ignorance ..as can be addressed. - (Ashton)
                                 Misinformed and incurious - (drook)
                             Serendipity Strikes: on SciFri (!) re the core of these communications ... today - (Ashton)
         Next target: Amendment #22 -NT - (scoenye) - (2)
             sad, I had to look it up and you may be correct -NT - (boxley)
             Were 3/4th of States to ratify we'd already be in Hospice, just awaiting the form-of implosion. - (Ashton)

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