The importance of emotional tone in the digital age

Name: The importance of emotional tone in the digital age
Uploaded: 2018-02-12T15:24:40Z
Duration: 11 min 33 s
Description: Technology can be dehumanizing. Even our day-to-day personal interactions conducted in digital bursts risk losing the heart of who are. Kareem Yusuf shows how people have aimed to embed emotional "tone" into their digital lives, from text-messages to data. He explores why, in today's fully digitized and globalized world, we must strive to incorporate tone into everything we do.

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Kareem Yusuf |

TED@IBM

• September 2014

Technology can be dehumanizing. Even our day-to-day personal interactions conducted in digital bursts risk losing the heart of who are. Kareem Yusuf shows how people have aimed to embed emotional "tone" into their digital lives, from text-messages to data. He explores why, in today's fully digitized and globalized world, we must strive to incorporate tone into everything we do.