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Kartiki Gonsalves: Connection Is the Most Powerful Force

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With surveys showing self-reported loneliness growing in tandem with tech innovation, it’s clear that connections in a digital world only go so deep. Kartiki Gonsalves, the director of the Academy Award-winning documentary “The Elephant Whisperers,” said that the danger of this lack of connection is that it will extend not only to how we treat others, but how we treat the world.

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