Through consistent pressure to succeed, I learned that human connections were an obstacle and distraction.
One aim was to find out how a country's internal borders reflect human connections.
It is crucially important to cultivate nourishing relationships and human connections, and gardening can definitely do that.
It is in the territory of more familiar human connections that the characters and their plight are most affecting.
We can't outsource the human connections at the heart of the learning experience.
It is also a place of deep human connections, rooted in place.
Relying solely on information and processes devoid of real human connections tends to leave us at a disadvantage when we are attempting to build relationships.
Gates acknowledged that technology could be abused in some cases, but that overall, technology is in fact helping to increase the strength of human connections.
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But these human to human connections seem to be losing some of their currency in an era where so much of our social networking has moved online.
Another audience member, who identified himself the spouse of a Stanford student, asked Gates whether he agreed with the criticism that technology was making human connections weaker and more virtual.
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The 28-year-old executive, who noted that he grew up with the Internet, said Facebook's Home was an acknowledgment that people's relationship with computing devices was rapidly changing from one focused on productivity or business to one centered around human connections.
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Meanwhile the Human Brain Project will attempt to simulate the trillions of neural connections that make up a human brain in an effort to comprehend how the organ functions.
The award compiled global public votes online and the winner -- The Temper Traps with their self-titled LP with pictures of connections in a human brain -- was announced on 10 January.
Uber should have started out by holding dialogues with officials and enlisting the help of intermediaries who know the market and have deep connections to handle the human relationships, Matwyshyn says.
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As high-resolution data about prehistoric climates accumulates, archeologists are looking for connections between climate change and human development.
The ultimate amorphous switch, figured Ovshinsky, was the human brain, with about 100 trillion neural connections operating free-form to handle most tasks elegantly.
Connections are a fundamental condition of being human--from our neural and immune systems to families and friendships.
The next 20 hours see a pruning back of those connections, rather as in the very young human brain.
In this virtual age, where so many transactions happen with no human being involved, finding a way to make emotional connections with your customers is key.
After all, a single human brain has more switches than all of the computers and routers and internet connections on our planet.
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