Channel: Talks at Google

Category: People & Blogs

Description: Behavioral scientist Michelle Drouin discuses her book "Out of Touch: How to Survive an Intimacy Famine", which explores love, belongingness, and fulfillment, focusing on how modern technology can both help and hinder our need to connect. For millions of people around the world, their phone is the only “person” they might touch and feel connected to over the course of their day. And this is just one example of how technology diverts our attention from the real-life, tactile relationships we need to be fulfilled as human beings, creating what Michelle Drouin terms an “intimacy famine.” In "Out of Touch" Drouin offers reasons for optimism. Instead of urging us to engage in phone fasts or take social media breaks, she draws on her years of research into the intersection of communication, relationships, and technology to illustrate how tech can be used to help us all feel less lonely and more connected and loved, right now and in the decades of innovation to come. Dr. Michelle Drouin is a behavioral scientist and expert on technology, relationships, couples, and sexuality whose work has been featured or cited in The New York Times, CBS News, CNN, NPR and other media outlets. She is a professor of Psychology at Purdue University—Fort Wayne and a Senior Research Scientist at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation. For more information on Dr. Drouin, please visit drmichelledrouin.com. Get the book here: goo.gle/3fkodhK. Moderated by Will Ajayi.