Christine Rosen

So I think we should value more face-to-face interaction, more civility in public life, like acknowledging the stranger when they walk into the elevator.

And these seem like small niceties, but they really matter in terms of our day-to-day lives and the ability to be civil to each other.

So

We have to choose it now.

It is an option never to do it that way.

And that is brand new.

So in some ways, I think we do adapt and we have adapted, but we can overcorrect towards technology and start to become a little too machine-like in our own way of behaving and thinking.

And I think sometimes we need to step back and say, what are the human things that we've lost in doing that?

They're missing the experience, first, of frustration.

If you haven't been writing in a while, you'll be shocked that you might not be able to read your own handwriting.

A lot of people have that experience.

But you're missing the process of embodied cognition, your mind and your body working together.

So I encourage people to just a couple times a day try to do something by hand, write by hand, use your body and your mind together in this way, because those experiences are things we have to seek out now.

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They've got great shows, great auctions, and just such a wide variety of pieces and different categories to shop from.

Thanks, Lynn. I'm very glad to be here.

Thanks, Lynn. I'm very glad to be here.

We are, and this is a fairly new thing in that we have a choice about whether we can be with each other in physical presence, face-to-face, having those sorts of conversations, or doing the same thing but with a screen between us and another person. Given the convenience, the ease, the efficiency, our ability to maybe mute or turn off a conversation that we're not enjoying,

We are, and this is a fairly new thing in that we have a choice about whether we can be with each other in physical presence, face-to-face, having those sorts of conversations, or doing the same thing but with a screen between us and another person. Given the convenience, the ease, the efficiency, our ability to maybe mute or turn off a conversation that we're not enjoying,

We're more and more often gravitating towards the mediated interaction with other people rather than the face to face. And I think over time, we develop habits and expectations of each other that are mediated through the technology. And that means when we are face to face and together in person again, we're not as good at what we used to do.