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/^t/Finally, the most alarming fact about automatization is that it imposes limits on relationships between people. Long time ago, the only kind of entertainment and source of information was talking to each other. A stranger visiting your house was given a warm welcome since he could tell you about different places, countries. Nowadays you do not have to leave your room to get touch with the world. It is enough to turn the TV on. People spend more and more time in front of their TV sets. Why is it so disturbing? Because they prefer to watch a film than talk to a friend, they know everything about the Carringtons' problems but nothing about their relatives' troubles; they watch fictitious people living but are absent in their own lives and in the life of their family. Automatization makes people more lazy in maintaing relationships.