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Be a Human, Not a Machine . . . I couldn't agree more. I wonder if Patricia Dalton has applied her clinical psychology in the setting of a technology oriented research university such as Carnegie Mellon University:

I love the opportunity to stay in touch with relatives and friends who live at a distance. We can get work done more efficiently. Huge amounts of information are at our fingertips. But the angst and dysfunction I've described are real. I can recall one family in need of time and togetherness who decided to take a hike, only to have the dad spend most of the time on his BlackBerry. The teen-age son muttered, "Some togetherness" . . .

Are we destined to be the driven in our modern world, or can we become the drivers? What we often forget is that we can make deliberate decisions to improve the quality of our lives.

The early-20th-century English writer G.K. Chesterton was probably right when he said, "New roads, new ruts." But we have more freedom than we realize to choose which ruts to avoid, given the changes that have already come and will keep coming in our high-tech world. -->