Touch in the age of technology

Our mobile phones and technology in all its forms are isolating people more and more. Conversely and at the same time we are becoming more connected by technology, even to the point of people now professing love for AI, we are losing so many valuable things.

One of those things is touch – there is no replacement for the touch of another person. There is a human crisis called loneliness and it’s growing. Society does not prioritize being human anymore.

The latest robots have skin that is said to feel like a real human skin. Japanese men no longer know how to talk to the opposite sex. When they come home from work, they are not dating - they are turning to sexualized cartoons and Robot wives.

In the west we have all seen young parents on their phones who aren’t interacting with their own children and babies even missing opportunities for play, conversation and touch.

Some of the implications are generations of people growing up without a lack of critical thinking and resilience.

Younger men have a tendency to think even in intimate relationships there should be rough treatment of their partners their experience of sex was learned from internet pornography. They don’t seem to know how to touch in the ways they need to express care and love.

Technology is taking people further and further away from each other. As girls grow into women as and wake up and start to demand better from men, will there be men equipped and know anything about gentle touch or how to be tender and vulnerable.