Description: Technology may guarantee the rapid transmission of information, but it's robbing us of the most important aspect of communication -- the building of relationships based on face-to-face encounters and heart-to-heart conversations. Our natural instinct for socialization has been undermined by urbanization, relocation, and, most strikingly, by "de-voicing" machines that eliminate the opportunity for vocal intimacy in our personal, professional, and public lives. To compensate, we tune into talk shows to get our minimum adult daily requirement of informal chatter and adopt media characters as substitutes for flesh-and-blood friends.

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