# Life in the "digital now"

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2013
- Speaker: Abha Dawesar
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/abha_dawesar_life_in_the_digital_now)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

One year ago, Abha Dawesar was living in blacked-out Manhattan post-Sandy, scrounging for power to connect. As a novelist, she was struck by this metaphor: Have our lives now become fixated on the drive to digitally connect, while we miss out on what's real?

## Lectures

1. [Life in the "digital now"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/abha_dawesar_life_in_the_digital_now/f168bda6930a), 12 min (TED's player)