Five warning signs that technology is turning you into a machine

• Instead of reading to your children, you e-mail them web-interactive bedtime stories.

• You've been known to e-mail your spouse when he/she is in the same room of the house as you are.

• Given your habit of communicating entirely via e-mail, you haven't spoken to your cubicle neighbor in over three years.

• You've been hospitalized after spraining a thumb on your Blackberry.

• You unwittingly offend your friends by simply saying “LOL” rather than actually laughing at their jokes.