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Which of you may be the primary to take a seat on a bench on the edge of a park and use a close-by cellphone sales space across the road as your hot spot? Fellow Forbes contributor Roy Smythe jumps proper into the question posed above. He begins by citing Hannah Arendt and referencing Stanley Milgram in support of his proposition that we will become desensitized to death. That’s not new, and Smythe makes clear that he’s not excited about that drawback here. What’s fascinating is Smythe’s corollary argument that the gap between healthcare suppliers and patients has become so nice that healthcare supply is at a “decisive turning level in history that separate entire eras from one another,” to cite Arendt. But the outcome was, as Leo Marx recognized, a ‘semantic void’, ‘the lack of enough language to seize the dramatic changes in the materials culture of the era’. My last competition is that thinking about scale presents a way of reinvigorating the history, sociology and even philosop...