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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/The first problem seems to be the most important one. Thanks to all new technology people can roam around the world without leaving their homes. The age of software offers games, home banking, electronic shopping, video on demand and a host of other services that unplug people from phisical contact. The decline of human-to-human contact is apparent around the world and corresponding electronically becomes more valuable than meeting face-to-face. The need for skin contact is no longer precious if people can buy clothes, make new friends, conduct business transactions without going out. Television, computers, Internet have glued people to their homes, isolating them from other human beings. Before television and computers, people had a stronger sense of community, a greater attachment to neighborhoods and families. Now most of the communities become less intimate and more isolated.