DSI affiliate faculty member Pranav Malhotra was recently quoted in The Atlantic article, “Forgive the Bad Texters: We are truly sorry for our delayed response,” by Julie Beck. In a world where “texting has become the currency of modern relationships,” we find ourselves either glued to our phones responding to a barrage of messages or feeling guilty for neglecting to respond in a prompt manner. Professor Malhotra stated that texting “is what the people want, but it’s not doing them any good.”
Beck writes, “Technology has taken our sense of social obligation, accelerated it, amplified it, and splintered it into billions of little green and blue bubbles, each one both a point of connection and a task hanging over our heads.”
Read the full article here.
