He was with a glamorous woman but they weren’t speaking; instead they spent the whole evening looking at their phones. This is among the subjects Kate Murphy analyses in You’re Not Listening. “At cafes, restaurants and family dinner tables, rather than talking to one another, people look at their phones. He knows precisely what keeps Mom and Dad from listening to him.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Some shops have noise levels of 90 decibels. “Technology does not so much interfere with listening as make it seem unnecessary,” she writes, encapsulating this very modern predicament.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2020 07:30 UTC