The Autobots represent the potential for humanity to win out, to overcome the loss of self and individuality and humanity to the cold soulless isolation of technology.

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Its technology evolves in isolation and struggles to succeed elsewhere.

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For conference calls and chats, Tiki's Intelligent Speech Mode uses voice isolation to bring your voice to the forefront while noise-canceling technology simultaneously reduces unwanted, competing background noise such as computer fans, keyboard typing and ambient sound.

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When women think about careers in science and technology, they may wrongly believe the career would be one of isolation and lack of human contact, envisioning a lone scientist working in a lab or on a computer.

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Technology offers more ways of nominal communication, but our society tends to promote actual isolation.

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With small domestic markets, backward technology and inadequate capital, third-world countries have everything to gain from ending their relative isolation and developing close economic ties with the rest of the world.

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