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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

"Hello......Hello.....Hello...." ----"Connected"---the Myth of the 21st Century

Recently I have been wondering.....wondering how we can be the generation that mostly hears the words "Hello....hello....hello." and yet be so "connected" in every way. After all. We drive a car, cell phone, text message, shave and drink coffee at the same time. How could we be more fulfilled than that? So efficient. So totally engaged. And yet no matter what cell phone plan one buys....and no matter how much one pays.....one gets constantly disconnected.....hello....hello? What's wrong with this picture?

Some time back, when my dad and mom were alive, we would go and have burgers around the little habachi that was my dad's favorite. Now days, kids would just probably text message instead. Somehow .......that is just not the same.

For purposes of debate, I would suggest that we are the most disconnected decade-----never before have so many folks been so connected .......and so disconnected at the same time.

There's nothing connected about it. And You?

You make the call.

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