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On the menu today: The COVID-19 pandemic forced Americans to isolate and do more through the Internet than ever before, which may have quite a few ill long-term effects for our society; the need for “resocialization” in 2021; and an update on political races in South Carolina and Louisiana.
Another Bad Pandemic Legacy: Becoming an Even-More-Online Society
Pew found earlier this year that:
As smartphones and other internet-connected devices have become more widespread, 31 percent of U.S. adults now report that they go online “almost constantly,” up from 21 percent in 2015 . . . 85 percent of Americans say they go online on a daily basis. That figure includes the 31 percent who report going online almost constantly, as well as 48 percent who say they go online several times a day and 6 percent who go online about once a day.
There’s a vast difference between interacting online and interacting in person; if there were no difference, ...
Episode 349: Curiosity and Its...
