our devices are changing our minds and hearts because they offer us three gratifying fantasies: that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be, that we will always be heard, and that we will never have to be alone. It’s this third idea—that we will never have to be alone—that is central to changing our psyches, says Turkle: “Because the moment that people are alone, even for a few seconds, they become anxious, they panic, they fidget, they reach for a device.
