The fellowship of nature is a strong league; and individuals be better and more surely knit together by love and benevolence than by covenants of leagues; by hearty affection of minds than by words. We have just begun to open up the Pandora’s box of surprises that awaits us with all of this new and exciting technology, and experts are still unsure how all of this innovation with impact our social World. Society has many needs and goals, “I love seeing innovation, brilliant minds creating new technology, but I worry too what these products will do to our in-person interactions,” reports Rebecca Jarvis, Chief Business and Economic correspondent of World News Tonight. The technology culture is tremendously important, and influences every aspect of life, giving us stuff to put in our near-empty minds. However, human interactions are also an important aspect of life, as we learn to absorb teachings, rules, norms, and roles. Furthermore, experts fear losing the human connection and also fear losing their privacy and money. As Apple unveils its new and highly anticipated iPhone 6, Home Depot reports a data breach.

The data breach of Home Depot (hardware store) is extremely significant, as 60 million people, who shop or have shopped, at Home Depot have had their data compromised, some customers are already reporting fraud charges on their credit cards, and this data breach has yet to be contained. The average amount of fraud is $332.00; and 10 to 15 percent of the cards will be used in fraud, totally $2-$3 billion, reported by Rebecca Jarvis. Meanwhile, the new Apple iPhone is getting far more press than the Home Depot data breach. This tells me that consumers are more interested in spending more than they are about protecting their identity. Human nature can be changed with the greatest ease and to the utmost possible extent, and as wonder as the human mind program is and its critical thinking skills are, that programmed processing is not the only way in which we experience the World. It is necessary for every child to learn certain attitudes and beliefs about the values of his or her society and loyalty to the larger nation in which we live—especially for use in time of a national crisis, such as flood, earthquake, drought, loss of leadership, and especially war. Since we are all dependent on each other, we must learn attitudes about individuals that allow for sharing, social concern, and trust. Each of us has a mind program that is influenced by our culture to think and feel in special ways. And though certain latitude is permitted, with some alternatives allowed, most of us are socialized to be more or less similar, in the context of our mind programs. However carefully molded and groomed we are by the society, what keeps us from being humanoids, robots, and puppets is the fact that we relate to our World through modes of thinking, sensing, intuiting, and feeling. Yet, some are deeply concerned that people will become so enthralled with their technology that they will go through life being less emotionally involved, not panicking in a crisis, and just in general, avoiding strong feelings, like love, happiness, or even anger. Many fear that society is on its way to becoming selfish, humanoid creatures, created to be humanlike in every respect, except for emotional aspects of being human.

Digital technology and these very different experiences have changed the way many people think. People function best when they have their phones and can network with social media. They thrive on instant gratification, and have easy access to all information, but are becoming devoid of feelings. Without feelings, you cannot really experience the World. I take a lot of pictures, and am out a lot, but not really meeting many people. People look at you, sometimes they talk, but it is very rare. People are so engrossed in their technology that watching TV, seeing a boxing match, sporting event, or watching this news is all the human contact they want so they are not bothered, distracted, or annoyed. However, whatever happened to meeting the love of your life in the supermarket, and going to the beach just to enjoy the sights, smells, sounds, and feel of the seashore, mountains, or meadows. Very little logic or thought goes into this process, yet nobody can minimize how important for full satisfying living it is. You need to enjoy your own internal experiences, which surround you every day. If you have no emotional connection to your environment, what kind of memories will you have? Also, what if hackers figure out how to tap into your hand-held mobile devices and hypnotize you? It could be subtle, at first, until you are a disconnected drone. We have all experience fantasy—it is daydreaming, night-dreaming, or imagining. The less you interact with society, the more one tense to use their fertile imagination. Fantasy is a means of escape or a place where only irresponsible people choose to live. Do not get so wrapped up in electronic devices that you start looking at people as nothing more than a video or a game. When you interact with others, your logical plans can be communicated primarily because you share many of the same concepts and words with others and are able to visualize a similar event, even if it is not exactly the same one. A fully human person tries to be real and open in their relationships with others, and is more aware of what is going on with themselves and other people.