In a discussion just now with a co-worker about the effects of technology on society, the following came up:

In a discussion just now with a co-worker about the effects of technology on society, the following came up:

"So, with the new email giftcards for Fathers' Day, you don't have to visit your father even one a year any more. All this technology is supposedly making a global village, but it is pushing us apart"

To which I replied:

"Yes, we're getting our global village - but it is a village of hermits."