Whenever I think of “alone together,” I think of the breakfast table scene in Citizen Kane: husband & wife reading separate newspapers.

— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) April 22, 2012

We use media & technology as supplements for human connection: sometimes as prosthetic limbs, sometimes as the object itself. So it goes.

— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) April 22, 2012

Connecting with other human beings, and feeling valued, loved, & special, is hard. Some people have fewer disadvantages in different media.

— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) April 22, 2012

Different networks and new technologies redraw the map of possibilities, but rarely if ever have inevitable consequences, in any direction.

— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) April 22, 2012

Neither embracing or shunning our new toys, or alternating between them, solves those problems. The hard work belongs to us.

— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) April 22, 2012