I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.
It would be a pity if frustrated by the price of travel we elected to become a society that never made contact that never gave SETI a fair chance.
Words words words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things only with the beastly words that stand for them.
The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen but whatever it is it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.
I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch the lower the class.
I remember when I was growing up I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up make eye contact and smile.