Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 20, 2020

Consistent with earlier research, Cigna, the insurance company, reported 2019 survey results that found two-thirds (61%) of Americans over the age of 18 are lonely and that loneliness continued to rise from its earlier study in 2018. A lack of sufficient connection is dangerous because social connection is a primal human need.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 26, 2019

From a biological standpoint, social connection is a primal human need. Based on its research findings , Cigna reported data in 2018 that chronic loneliness in America has reached epidemic levels. With increasing levels of stress, the nervous system processes the stress as a threat. Prevalence of Social Disconnection.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Google Assistant stunned the crowd at I/O 2018 with natural-sounding phone calls to unassuming restaurant and hair salon staff. The app ecosystem is as vast and rich as it is precisely because the apps there cater to such a wide variety of human needs and desires. Driving this change, of course, are the tech giants.

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