We believe that the main aspect of modern technology that has contributed to this shift is that all three game changers increased not merely our access to information, but notably to a particular type of information: communication. The ability to connect with other people, anywhere, all the time, has changed dramatically with the advent of email, mobile phones, texting, social networks, and myriad ways for one person to connect to another electronically. We hypothesize that this has put pressure on our expectations of interconnectivity and that has resulted in the emergence of heightened
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