Digital Device Overdose and Its Effects on Communication (1)

About eight years ago, I remember sitting in a restaurant on a date with my wife, discussing a disturbing phenomenon surrounding us. People-watching being a bad habit of ours, we had noticed around us young dating couples, husbands and wives, families with children, sitting around their respective tables, eyes fixated not on each other in normal conversation at a meal, but on their phones and devices. There was an eerie silence. And after having bowed our heads to pray before our meal, we...