Professor and Blanquerna Observatory director Míriam Díez Bosch has been invited to give a talk on “Challenges in a hyperconnected world” at the 7th Conference of the Casa de la Misericòrdia Foundation, which this year focused on COVID and its impact in childhood and youth. The event took place on April 14th at the headquarters of Foment del Treball. In the parliament, in Italian, the professor highlighted the isolation that screens can cause and the paradox of intimate proximity as well as the limits of the connection between people.