Celeste Headlee Argument Essay

Celeste Headlee argues that due to the increasing use of ‘within reach’ technology, we’re losing our ability to converse face-to-face and that opens a brand new door for modern conversation. A conversation requires a balance between talking and listening, which somewhere along the way we lost balance. We tend to use conversation as a platform to focus more on our own thoughts and feelings rather than it being a place for discussion and understanding. Sometimes, while someone is telling us about their faults and failures, we tend to stop listening and revert back to OUR faults and failures. Possibly to better relate to them or that’s what we believe we are doing, yet, the conversation goes south and before you know it, the conversation is about