CBS Sunday Morning - Is the Smartphone Making Us More "Dis-connected" Than Ever Before?

Everywhere you look these days, everyone is looking down. None of us can seem to take our eyes off our phones, not even for an instant. When we're not talking, we're texting or surfing the web. CBS's Susan Spencer interviews Sherry Turkle, a psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who says a recent New Yorker magazine cover showing a family on vacation together at the beach - each busy with their respective phones - sums up the state of our society: We've lost the ability to have meaningful, face-to-face communications. We also hear from social scientists and medical doctors who have studied how all of this technology is changing our brains.

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