Derek Thompson

And there's further research that looks at all leisure time and breaks it out into a bunch of different categories with a bunch of different labels. And basically the exercise is about... How much time do people spend in sedentary leisure, watching television, versus active leisure, say working out or playing a sport?

And there's further research that looks at all leisure time and breaks it out into a bunch of different categories with a bunch of different labels. And basically the exercise is about... How much time do people spend in sedentary leisure, watching television, versus active leisure, say working out or playing a sport?

And how much of each of those categories is spent with other people, say watching TV with your spouse or with a friend, or watching TV alone? And for young, less educated, unmarried men, the rise of sedentary alone time has just soared. We're talking about watching TV by yourself, playing video games by yourself. Alone active time would be like working out by yourself.

And how much of each of those categories is spent with other people, say watching TV with your spouse or with a friend, or watching TV alone? And for young, less educated, unmarried men, the rise of sedentary alone time has just soared. We're talking about watching TV by yourself, playing video games by yourself. Alone active time would be like working out by yourself.

And how much of each of those categories is spent with other people, say watching TV with your spouse or with a friend, or watching TV alone? And for young, less educated, unmarried men, the rise of sedentary alone time has just soared. We're talking about watching TV by yourself, playing video games by yourself. Alone active time would be like working out by yourself.

But the one line, the one graph line that was just clearly striking in the data that I reviewed is sedentary alone time for single young men. That group clearly has something going on that is a steroidal version of what's going on for everybody else.

But the one line, the one graph line that was just clearly striking in the data that I reviewed is sedentary alone time for single young men. That group clearly has something going on that is a steroidal version of what's going on for everybody else.

But the one line, the one graph line that was just clearly striking in the data that I reviewed is sedentary alone time for single young men. That group clearly has something going on that is a steroidal version of what's going on for everybody else.

That article was alarming to many people, surprising to many people. It certainly wasn't surprising to Jason Fagone, who's an author I spoke to, who's writing a book about the fact of and the rising phenomenon of people having relationships with AI. Companion AI has millions of users. Millions of people have relationships with text bots, essentially.

That article was alarming to many people, surprising to many people. It certainly wasn't surprising to Jason Fagone, who's an author I spoke to, who's writing a book about the fact of and the rising phenomenon of people having relationships with AI. Companion AI has millions of users. Millions of people have relationships with text bots, essentially.

That article was alarming to many people, surprising to many people. It certainly wasn't surprising to Jason Fagone, who's an author I spoke to, who's writing a book about the fact of and the rising phenomenon of people having relationships with AI. Companion AI has millions of users. Millions of people have relationships with text bots, essentially.

Jason told me about characters from his forthcoming book, one who's A young man who, I think this is actually very similar to a Black Mirror episode, tragically lost his fiancée, instructed a chatbot to essentially have the personality of his deceased fiancée and use that chatbot in order to work through his grief. He wasn't pretending to date a silicon-based version of his dead fiancée.

Jason told me about characters from his forthcoming book, one who's A young man who, I think this is actually very similar to a Black Mirror episode, tragically lost his fiancée, instructed a chatbot to essentially have the personality of his deceased fiancée and use that chatbot in order to work through his grief. He wasn't pretending to date a silicon-based version of his dead fiancée.

Jason told me about characters from his forthcoming book, one who's A young man who, I think this is actually very similar to a Black Mirror episode, tragically lost his fiancée, instructed a chatbot to essentially have the personality of his deceased fiancée and use that chatbot in order to work through his grief. He wasn't pretending to date a silicon-based version of his dead fiancée.

He was using the fiancée essentially as he would use an extension of a therapist to work through the traumatic grief of losing someone who you love more than anyone in the world. So things like that are happening. You know, you were born in the 1970s. I was born in the 1980s.

He was using the fiancée essentially as he would use an extension of a therapist to work through the traumatic grief of losing someone who you love more than anyone in the world. So things like that are happening. You know, you were born in the 1970s. I was born in the 1980s.

He was using the fiancée essentially as he would use an extension of a therapist to work through the traumatic grief of losing someone who you love more than anyone in the world. So things like that are happening. You know, you were born in the 1970s. I was born in the 1980s.

There's going to be kids born in the 2010s, the 2020s who might grow up in an era where lots of people seeking friendships are balancing two different alternatives. On the one hand, there are these carbon-based life forms, otherwise known as people, that you can be friends with. But people are messy, and sometimes we talk too long, like maybe I'm doing with the answer to this question.

There's going to be kids born in the 2010s, the 2020s who might grow up in an era where lots of people seeking friendships are balancing two different alternatives. On the one hand, there are these carbon-based life forms, otherwise known as people, that you can be friends with. But people are messy, and sometimes we talk too long, like maybe I'm doing with the answer to this question.

There's going to be kids born in the 2010s, the 2020s who might grow up in an era where lots of people seeking friendships are balancing two different alternatives. On the one hand, there are these carbon-based life forms, otherwise known as people, that you can be friends with. But people are messy, and sometimes we talk too long, like maybe I'm doing with the answer to this question.