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Turn It Off

Gershom Gorenberg responds to Jonathan Safran Foer's recent article on paying attention to other people by finding time to turn off electronic devices.

I was sitting in a café and talking to a friend on the phone while naturally checking text messages that kept popping up on the little screen, when I got a tweet with a link to Jonathan Safran Foer's article,

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