Joyce Fegan: How significant are dead-eyed scrolls going to be?

Screen time makes us more digitally connected but less so with our environment and community and affects levels of empathy

We've all been doing a lot more scrolling, tapping and mindless involuntary consuming of information - stuff we never sought out in the first place during the Covid era.

The green light had yet to come on outside Lidl.

The orderly-formed queue of adults, all masked and socially distant, stood with their heads bowed, faces buried into their phones.