One Hundred Twenty Eight: Apple

So, here I sit at the Apple Store in Deer Park, Illinois. The store probably has 75 people milling around. Approximately 30 of them are blue-shirted A drones. One A drone in particular, a 50-ish woman trying desperately to look something less, hovers over me like humming bird. My friend is buying, or has purchased an iMac and is being led through the set up process by an overweight A drone who seems to be one of the less obnoxious employees. Actually, they are all quite impressive in terms of superficial product knowledge. Interpersonal skills are generally non-existent though. I guess Apple, and the tech biz in general, has long since decided that basic personal social skills are not important. And I suppose when you are interacting with someone electronically, the other person really doesn't care what I sound, look or smell like. It's a different world out there from the one I grew up in, which is of course the lament of every generation. But I wonder if this shift from real to virtual contact between humans really is a game changer.