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Tom, the presentation became full of static at perhaps 2/3 or so, but it was very interesting. I particularly liked your insisting that the human element will always be needed even when technology is commonplace - caregiving, for example. I have heard it said that many nurses left the field when their work became primarily monitoring the machines at the hospital bedside. I have seen the problem firsthand when home care nurses bring their IT on a laptop to their home visit and are only partially present to the patient during the visit. Etcetera. Even in that very early blog interchange about cell phones, the point can be made. A city full of people walking around with their ears plugged or talking on a cell phone become isolated from others around them. And that way-of-being-in-the-world continues even after the cellphone or ear plug is removed....unfortunately. I was choking on something recently -face turning red-blue- in a public eating location (Whole Foods) and no one noticed. I probably needed the Heimlich maneuver...but nobody looked my way! I am still here - but no thanks to that public environment.