Everyone’s online. Everyone’s alone.
46%
of seafarers say greater access to communications technology has reduced social interaction onboard.
Connectivity transformed life at sea, but much of the ship’s social life moved into the cabin with it. Mess rooms emptied. Shared downtime became individual screen time.
The result is less connection, more digital fatigue and weaker onboard relationships, on ships where those relationships are the ones people rely on when something goes wrong.
The ship got the bandwidth. It lost the room.
Source
Futurenautics, on communications access and onboard social interaction.
