I used to see puzzled faces in the early days of the Internet when I promised people that the high tech stuff would come to high touch some day soon. Some of the older guard still think the only way to create a relationship is "belly to belly", but I think they're hard-pressed to find a solid defense of their scotoma in the light of social media like Facebook and cooperative projects like Wikipedia and open-source software. The evidence FOR tech enabling remote relationship building is very strong. These have emerged in less than a dozen years.

Have you considered what another decade will bring us?

Today we download mobile apps into a devices that we can leave behind in coffee shops in the blink of an eye. Within a few years most of apps will operate on the 'cloud' and not in our pad. I believe within a decade a device won't be required. 
 
Nanites, nanobots, nanoids, nanomachines or nanomites - whatever you want to call them, the tech is already here to repair cellular damage or add value to our living form. We'll subscribe to Google or whatever as a direct infusion of knowledge without the need to carry an external machine.

We're on our way to a man/machine 'singularity' according to recognized writers;

"such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, who define the concept in terms of the technological creation of superintelligence, and argue that it is difficult or impossible for present-day humans to predict what a post-singularity world would be like, due to the difficulty of imagining the intentions and capabilities of superintelligent entities."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity 

Tough to swallow?

Bit by bit, we're on our way. Bit by bit we can eat a Cessna 150 as Micheal Lotito did  - and I say that's proof we're heading toward singularity - scotomas and all.

Watch the documentary on Ray Kurzwell on Netflix called; "Transcendent Man"