‘Look down’ generation unable to face eye contact, says Simon Schama

thetimes.co.uk - People who stare at the screens on their mobile devices are part of a “look down generation” that is losing the ability to communicate face to face, claims the historian Simon Schama.

Announcing a forthcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, he said people were locking themselves “into the world of their own headphones” and ignoring strangers.

“We ought to be a community in which faces exchange looks,” he said. “Particularly in this country, the exchange of looks is important because we are nervous of being misconstrued.”