Diminished by years of deferment to technology, eye contact is now not necessary. We aren't in the same room, and we have established contacts that have never been in the room with us at the same time.
Weird, isn't it?
No, it's normal.
We learn rapport skills as a precursor to gaining personal influence, to persuasion, and to success in our dealings with others, them, the third parties. Just for now, while we still have to meet them in person.
When gathered with friends and someone asks who did that thing, when did something happen, or who won the cup in 1996, no longer does anyone touch their chin and reminisce. They don't think or remember or relate. They just turn to the nearest person with two thumbs, a smartphone and a signal.
How sad that we cannot go home still pondering the answer.
The mystery has gone; in its place we have certainty, and its midst lies emptiness, a space that may stay vacant for a very long time.
We did that.
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