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Technology is antisocial.
The advent of the television changed the nature of neighborhood interaction. Families spent more time indoors, glued to the set. The personal computer came along and further separated us. For the first couple of decades, it isolated individuals, absorbing them in work or games, too often oblivious to their surroundings. Then came the Internet , and interaction was in.