In this book excerpt, Sherry Turkle explains how virtual intimacy may be degrading our experiences of the other kind and, quite possibly, all encounters of any kind.
Earlier this week, the leader of Nuns on the Bus made a pilgrimage to Capitol Hill to ask Congress to stand up for the common good and end the shutdown.
This was the latest in a string of battles in which the American economy was ultimately the loser. Now Democrats have the upper hand -- if they don't mess it up.
The question that haunted the post-war industrial tech boom of the 1950s is rising again: Have we reached a stage at which technology is destroying more jobs than it's creating?
Ahead of the day of unplugging starting today at sundown, some advice from Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön on the value of turning off our electronic devices.
An interfaith group of approximately 150 clergy leaders, locked out workers and people of faith, marched on Capitol Hill yesterday to urge Congress to end the shutdown.