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/^t/On of the biggest problems automation has caused is the decline of human relationships and human contact. More and more people start making new friends by using Internet or going to cyber-cafe. There is no need to meet with a friend eye to eye in order to talk, when a person can sit at home, drink a cup of tea and talk by Internet. Fewer and fewer see any use in writing letters, for which we must wait quite a long time but they are much more intimate than e-mail. By using computers or TV-sets we all lose a sense of community, we don't know our neighbours and family because we spend our time mostly in front of the screen. From day to day, because of automation, people are becoming less and less human, losing values which are typical only for human nature, including the power of touching. They are not able to enjoy their lives any more.