Loneliness in a Hyperconnected World

Why are so many people still lonely when we can message anyone at any time, anywhere in the world? Doesn’t all of this technology mean we are fully connected?

The Sunday morning ritual at my English boarding school in the late 1970s was the same every week. Toast from the bain-marie, slathered in marmalade - soggy because the toast was lumped in piles, and the steam rendered it the consistency of wet paper. Spooning sugar into a cup of stewed tea, with much caution exercised to avoid the sugar bowls into whic…