The iGens – trying to connect from the privacy of their rooms

Prof Albert R Newsome, Raffles Professor of History at NUS in 2005 and Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill noted that a new generation bred on smartphones and social media is changing social mores. He discussed what the heavy reliance on electronic technology is doing to both our own moral development and to our ability to connect deeply with others around us.

The Straits Times, 17 November 2017, Opinion, pA25