# Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now"

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?

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2013
- Runtime: 12 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/AbhaDawesar_2013G)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/AbhaDawesar_2013G?play=1)