Over the past few weeks, I’ve blogged about the personalization of technology and the devices, computers and other “screens” we have all around us — at work, at home and on the road. In an emailing last week, Gerry Purdy makes up an interesting point — that we need to make sure to look up from our screens and interact with the people around us. I couldn’t agree more. I’ve seen kids with their faces buried in handheld gaming devices at Fenway Park during the game. I’ve been to holiday gatherings and saw family members glued to the home PC as others chatted around the dinner table. I’ve been in meetings and at conferences and watched as attendees were busy texting and Tweeting, often missing parts of the presentations — and missing the opportunity to network with others. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very grateful for the reach and access technology has given us — allowing for more and better communication, information, entertainment. But it’s important to look up and interact at a personal level. We at Topaz will be talking more about this in the weeks ahead — we’re in one of the busiest times of years for tech industry conferences, shows and other events, all of which offers an opportunity to interact face-to-face with the community around us at personal level….a great supplement to the connections made possible by our “screens”.

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