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143 - The Dying Art of Conversation

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Is the art of conversation dying, or is it just different?

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  1. Comfortably loved by Soft and Furious
  2. When the blood driving the self by Soft and Furious
  3. Empowered Ending by Soft and Furious

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  1. It’s funny
  2. Talking about the dying art of conversation to a medium of listeners that’s all about conversation
  3. But it’s a topic I talk about a lot to my friends about
  4. And it’s an important topic to designers
  5. The reason it’s important to designers is because so much of what we do is about conversing
  6. We have to have a conversation to sell our design work
  7. To discuss projects, goals and briefs
  8. And countless other parts of our job that require designers to be masters of the art of conversation
  9. But how does this change our job, if the art of conversation is dying
  10. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
  11. MUSIC
  12. On April the 21st, 2006, the BBC ran an article about the dying art of conversation
  13. In it they spoke to two self styled expert conversationalists about how conversation is changing
  14. They talk about time being a factor, that everybody is busier now
  15. And they talk about old TV talk shows, where they used to have one guest on for an hour, 
  16. and now the same talk shows have five guests in the same time
  17. They talk about how our attention spans are shorter, that we have less patience for chit chat, and that we’re not good listeners
  18. All of which I agree with, but this article is from 2006, 11 years ago
  19. Now, in 2017, the situation is even worse
  20. The rise of so many text-based chat apps: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Twitter and all the rest, mean we’re even more text-baed now, and not conversation based
  21. We’re conversing with each other, but less and less, we’re actually talking to each other
  22. You know, actually looking each other in the eye and saying words
  23. Let’s talk about one final example
  24. In the UK
  25. The good old British Public House used to be the place to find a conversation, every night of the week
  26. Often called Pubs, pubs used to be everywhere across the UK
  27. Any night, you could turn up to your local pub, and talk with people over a pint of beer
  28. They’re used to be 3 pubs within 2 minutes walking distance from my house about 10 years ago
  29. And now there’s 0
  30. Pubs are dying too, and they were one of the last bastions of the good old art of conversation