By LIZZ WINSTEAD

Less with a bang than a wimper, one of America’s leading humorists
confronts the growing wasteland of so-called consumer conveniences.

EXCERPT

WE MAKE PLANS through garbled shorthand messages via our computers with creepy little yellow faces to convey our emotions. We don’t even talk on our phones anymore. Instead, we send emotionally detached messages back and forth, sometimes going so far as the deadly, “I’m breaking up with you.” iPods isolate us. Some of us detach by sending text messages all through dinner parties on our Blackberries.

Supposedly, we’re more connected than ever but the reality is we are becoming more disconnected than ever before.

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