Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edna is a co-founder of Boddle, a K-6 gamified learning platform. As loneliness rises and digital life accelerates, this moment ...

A connection recession is afoot. Since 1990, the number of close friends people report having has declined by 22 percent. And today, 72 percent of global workers report feeling lonely at least monthly ...

There seems to be an epidemic of loneliness in the world today. We wonder why. Yet, if you look around—a train, a café, a school, even a family dinner table—everyone is connecting with something ...