Naomi Alderman: ‘Whatever happened to talking? We’ve lost the ability to swap ideas’

Sci-fi author Naomi Alderman explores the impact of the internet on human communication in her new show. Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Observer

The internet has caused the biggest crisis in human communication since the arrival of the printing press, the award-winning dystopian author Naomi Alderman has said.

The writer of The Power, a 2016 feminist science fiction novel, said we are living through the “third information crisis”, in which digital communications have eroded in-person communication and entrenched disagreement.