
Our need for true connection is giving rise to phone-free spaces
Phone-free events are on the rise: is the tide turning from the false intimacy of screens towards true social interaction?
by Joelle Renstrom
Joelle Renstrom is a writer whose work has appeared in Slate, The Guardian, and the Daily Beast. She is the author of the essay collection Closing the Book: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature (2015). She teaches writing and research at Boston University, and blogs about the relationship between science and science fiction at Could This Happen?