The invention of the telephone offered a way to communicate without seeing other people.

That transformation may have perplexed our socially driven brains.

Our brains don't get software updates, leaving them to adapt to new technology.

The telephone turned 150 years old this year. The request of the first ever call, from Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas A. Watson, was simple. “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.”

Bell was a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University at that time, and his patent for this new device was entitled, “Improvement on Telegraphy.”

He likely didn’t ponder his influence on social health. For the first time in human history, people could communicate in real time without seeing each other.

While people must have marveled at the........

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