Jun 4, 2026 · 46 min · 10 segments
Are we in danger of becoming a contactless society? That’s the concern of psychotherapist Dr Colman Noctor, who joined Elaine to explain why we need to push ourselves beyond the isolated safety of…
Colman NoctorGuest
Elaine BurkeHost
[phone dialing] Welcome to For Tech Sake, a podcast where we are down one host, unfortunately, because our dear Kelly Early is still unwell, and we do wish her a quick and speedy recovery and hope she will be back with us soon.

But for now, I am your solo host, Elaine Burke, and today we're bringing you an episode about the issues with tech-mediated socialization.

So we are all communicating with friends, family online a lot of the time, and sometimes that becomes our default even when other options, such as face-to-face communication or even a phone call might be available.

And I wanted to find out a bit more about what that means and how that impacts us, and we have a great interviewee to dissect all of that.
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