CHAPTER 9
E-nough:
Getting Back to Face-to-Face Relationships
Even though technology can simplify things, deliver products and services more quickly, and make us more productive, it will never give us the warm and fuzzy feeling that comes from sincerity, trust, and courtesy.
While buying books on Amazon.com one night, I came across titles such as e-conomy, e-college, e-business, e-conomics, and e-volve, to name just a few books on the crest of the Internet wave. Now, you won’t find a person who loves technology more than I do, but I fear that our hi-tech society—especially our younger generation—is becoming less exposed to face-to-face interaction, and our people skills are slowly eroding. For example, houses built 50 to 60 years ago had beautiful ...
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