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Opinion: How Big Tech Helped Cities Become an Incubator for the Greatest Currency of Our Age: Loneliness
Technology and cities are making us lonelier than ever, writes journalist Sophie McKay, giving opportunistic new businesses the chance to sell us innovative, expensive and ultimately empty solutions to a perfectly normal emotion.