tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996186724237591242.post1414620067714733342..comments2009-05-25T07:35:01.394-07:00Meridith the Food Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18139490296751161481noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996186724237591242.post-20664836300091262732009-05-25T07:34:51.895-07:002009-05-25T07:34:51.895-07:00I couldn't agree more with your comments regarding becoming disconnected due to technology.<br /><br />I have a computer science degree so am very much technologically literate, however on my degree we were taught that technology should only be used when it is needed (it sounds like common sense but isn't sadly).<br /><br />Most of my friends connect more in the virtual world than in the real world these days. Most no longer have the socially connected lives they once had.<br /><br />Isolation leads to loneliness leads to a malfunction in the human psyche... which in some cases leads to mental illness / depression and at the worst level school shootings etc.<br /><br />Technology is fine in moderation... it's just when people become mesmerized by it and can no longer disconnect from it. Think "The Matrix", we are not far from being plugged in to a virtual world. Immortality is only 100-200 years away.Xandranihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329571776340075276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6996186724237591242.post-37124559958103437152009-02-05T05:43:13.820-08:002009-02-05T05:43:13.820-08:00Pappano believes that often we may want to connect with others and to have deep and meaningful relationships, but we want it on our own terms. “We have moved from a society in which the group was more important than the individual,” she says, “to one in which the central figure is the self. ...<BR/><A HREF="http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=298395" REL="nofollow">didier</A>stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04294715932733532910noreply@blogger.com