As we progress with the latest technologies that have improved communication beyond limits over the past twenty years, there is a side effect that is becoming increasingly problematic for our society in 2010: the issue of human isolation . As more and more adults take jobs that allow them to work from home and more and more young people grow up in a world where all social interactions outside of school take place via the Internet with them sitting at home in front of a computer. to look at how I believe this so-called 'communications revolution' has led to the isolation of individuals from today's society. Human beings are social animals and this solitary lifestyle can lead to unwanted effects such as loneliness or the inability to establish relationships, even resulting in clinical depression [key-1]. If we look at two typical case studies of as a world with such amazing communications technologies as email and instant messaging, is impacting the lifestyles of people in the UK today, we see the cracks in everyday situations where perhaps being freed from the commuter rat race has had some radical consequences for that extremely social animal that is the human being. This revolution in communications technology has had a huge impact on today's workplace. As we can see in the first case study, companies' investments in IT have negated the need for staff to be on site, allowing them to work from home and communicate with colleagues via phone, email or instant message and share any documents via ftp. or sent as an email attachment. This brings many advantages for the employee, including not having to deal with the daily commute to work, saving not only time and money, but also stress... middle of paper... technology from which to isolate oneself even the company. To summarize, the technological breakthroughs of the last 20 years have completely changed the way our society operates in a way that could be harmful to the population. I don't think a total ban on these technologies would be a good idea, I do however think that people should be informed about the dangers of isolation and that children should be taught from an early age the importance of social interaction and the importance of being an active member of a community. I think in the next few years, when this technology has been around longer and people have grown up with it and it has become a larger part of our society, as I believe it will, unless actions are taken to prevent that, it will be interesting to see if our modern social structures adapt to allow this technology to be at the forefront of our daily lives.