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Break out of your echo chamber: Technology arranges lunch with someone new

  • Written by Mohammad Ghassemi, Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
imageEating lunch together is increasingly a thing of the past – but it doesn't have to be.Luke Chesser

On average, Americans spend 50 minutes a day on Facebook. That’s a lot of online socializing. It’s also about the same amount of time workers take for their lunch break. Yet there’s not nearly as much socializing then: 65...

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