TECHNOLOGY

Consider 24/7, 365, real-time, fast-time, more time, save time, better, quicker, cheaper, e-mail, cell phone, voice mail, texting, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Skype, online blogging, surfing, ordering, dating, matchmaking—we aren’t alive without them. Brand names become verbs overnight, and we find in our work that very few of us ever turn it off. Nineteen out of twenty confess to never using the power button on their cell phones. How about you? From purchase to replacement without ever powering down, we’re so afraid of losing touch or missing out on new technology that we lose touch with ourselves and with others.

These timesavers then become time takers. Can you start or end your day without your fix of social networking or e-mail ...

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