{"id":14252,"date":"2026-07-02T19:57:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14252"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:01:31","slug":"14252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/02\/14252\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-highlight\/492761\/touch-screens-smartphone-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Vox<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How we lost our sense of touch<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ufeffTouchscreens made life frictionless. They also flattened our relationship with the physical world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/authors\/sara-herschander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sara Herschander<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a class=\"_1hhpe711\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.vox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/gettyimages-3318704.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.vox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/gettyimages-3318704.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&amp;w=2400\" alt=\"Maria Montessori sitting with a group of children learning with hands-on objects in the 1940s.\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Maria Montessori\u2019s hands-on teaching methods remain popular today for many of the same reasons they took off in the early 1900s.Kurt Hutton\/Picture Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was the kind of kid who dug holes, the deeper the better. I vividly recall the ecstasy of once splaying out my fingers in a bucket full of backyard dirt, a bliss punctuated only by a sudden burning sensation in my right hand that turned out to be my first-ever encounter with a fire ant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The textures of my childhood loom larger in my memory than sights or sounds. My first paper cut, on a piece of sheet music, and the rush of cold water my older sister used to wash away the blood. The warmth of my mother\u2019s hug and the tender squeeze of my grandmother\u2019s hand in mine. The whoosh of air I\u2019d get from barreling a scooter down a hill, and the pristine crunch of stepping out into a winter\u2019s first snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the world where many of us grew up, one in which we felt our way toward understanding, sometimes playfully, sometimes a little painfully, sometimes both. To make a phone call, you once had to rotate a dial. Entering an apartment building meant turning a key inside a wobbly knob. Calculators and cameras used to be clunky, and writing was something you did with a pencil you sharpened yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-highlight\/492761\/touch-screens-smartphone-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Vox<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Vox How we lost our sense of touch \ufeffTouchscreens made life frictionless. They also flattened our relationship with the physical world. by Sara Herschander I was the kind of kid who dug holes, the deeper the better. 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