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Take a Moment to Say Thanks and Look Around for a Minute (without your Smartphone)

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Our lives are busy. We're equipped with more gadgets that supposedly help us cut through the clutter, save time, and get us to instant everything. Yet iPhones are our new CrackBerries and everything is an app. We're addicted to social media (surprised? no). I finally caved and registered for a Twitter account last week. The twitter people forced me to "Follow" at least four people, four topics and four friends. I've done one test tweet and haven't used it again. My life was pretty good without Twitter. I wonder how it's going to change now? What's next, a little monitor we can wear on our chests that displays a dashboard of rolling messages about how many push ups we've completed, or what we ate for lunch?  Ray Kurzweil forecasts that we’ll eventually be implanting computers and nanobots in our bodies and brains to enhance their natural functions. Thanks, but I like my brain the way it is. After I got my iPhone last year I made a vow to never t