We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

So more and more today, we are communicating with the people in our lives via screens.

Might be your desktop, with email or instant message, or it might be on your smartphone with

text messaging or Twitter or Facebook.

While there have been some great benefits of this advance in communication technology,

efficient, etc. etc.

There are some drawbacks that have come with the decline in face-to-face conversation.

Well, I guess today on the podcast has written a book, Making the Case, What We're Missing

Out by Not Engaging Face-to-Face Talk and Open into Conversation.

Her name is Sherry Terkel.

She's a professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Massachusetts.

Her latest book is Reclaiming Conversation, The Power of Talk in a Digital Age.

And today on the podcast, we discuss what we miss out whenever we don't engage in face-to-face

conversation and what we can do to reclaim conversation in our own lives with the people

around us.

Great podcast with a lot of great tips that you can actually implement today in your life

to bring back open into conversation.

So without further ado, Sherry Terkel, Reclaiming Conversation.

All right, Sherry Terkel, welcome to the show.

My pleasure.

So your latest book is Reclaiming Conversation.

And you've written about how technology and communication and humanity intersects because

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