Joyce Fegan: How significant are dead-eyed scrolls going to be? Screen time makes us more digitally connected but less so with our environment and community and affects levels of empathy We've all been doing a lot more scrolling, tapping and mindless involuntary consuming of information - stuff we never sought out in the first place during the Covid era. Sat, 10 Apr, 2021 - 12:11 The green light had yet to come on outside Lidl. The orderly-formed queue of adults, all masked and socially distant, stood with their heads bowed, faces buried into their phones. Their feet were on the tarmacadam-ed ground of a car park in Co Wicklow, but as for the location of their heads — that was anyone's guess.