Our Screens Are Making Us Dissociate

If being online makes you feel detached from your sense of self, you’re not alone

Eleanor Cummins
OneZero
Published in
6 min readMar 4, 2020

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In her bestselling memoir Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener describes life inside the tech industry and the toll it took on her, and the world.

“My impulse, over the past few years, had been to remove myself from my own life, to watch from the…

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Eleanor Cummins
OneZero

Freelance science journalist. Writes a death newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/elliepses