Pillar
Social Connection
Tools that bridge real people, not replace them.
Tools that bridge real people, not replace them.
Series in this pillar
SERIES-07
The Body in the Room
Physical presence is the most powerful form of social connection the research identifies. This series covers what makes in-person contact work, what stops it, and how to rebuild it after months or …
SERIES-08
The Screen Between Us
Digital connection is real, conditional, and dangerous when it simulates the thing it claims to provide. Six articles test every form of screen-mediated contact against one standard: does it create …
SERIES-09
Across the Years
America sorted itself by age through housing policy, workplace culture, and the collapse of multigenerational households. The cost falls on both sides of the divide: older adults lose cognitive …
SERIES-10
The Citizen You Still Are
Older adults are absent from civic and cultural life not because they have nothing to say but because the preparation, the monitoring, and the production machinery stood between their capacity and its …