As almost every conceivable contact between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. You can’t even call a person to get the phone number of another person any more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.
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The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver hushed the rest of us because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone.
The ____________ starts on Friday and the experts will be discussing the impact of technology on the climate in the future.
That was good ____________ because his work was influential in shaping the project plan.
Music is ____________; we can hear it and feel it, but not see it.