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Losing Touch

Will Self laments our growing lack of physical contact with one another and with the natural world as a result of the rise of technology.

Will Self regrets our growing lack of physical contact with one another and with the natural world as a result of the rise of technology. "What the touch screen, the automatic door,online shopping and even the Bagladeshi sweatshop piece-worker who made our trousers are depriving us of is the exercise of our very sense of touch itself, and in particular they are relieving us of the need to touch other people."
Producer: Sheila Cook.

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Sun 1 Feb 201508:48

A Point of View: Does technology make people touch each other less?

A Point of View: Does technology make people touch each other less?

The sensation of human touch is disappearing in a computer age, and with it part of human nature, says the novelist Will Self.

Read Will Self's article on the BBC News website

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  • Fri 30 Jan 201520:50
  • Sun 1 Feb 201508:48

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