Sentence examples for virtual connections from inspiring English sources

Linda Stone, a former vice president at Microsoft and veteran of many TED conferences, had a less lofty prediction: "For the last 20 years, we had an ideal that was all about having these exciting virtual connections that enhanced our productivity, our connectivity, our opportunity," said Ms. Stone, who is working on a book about how social cycles affect business.

Computers and virtual connections have become an integral part of daily life.

Telephones, and now cellphones and broadband Internet, made virtual connections possible.

Their virtual connections to the West sometimes seem stronger than their physical ties to India.

On an even deeper level, there may be a physiological aspect of friendship that virtual connections can never replace.

It makes sense that we're burying ourselves deeper in our virtual connections to another person, rather than reaching out and touching them.

Mostly though, the talk is about personal, if virtual, connection.

Some question whether young learners, particularly struggling ones, have the communication skills needed to benefit from a virtual connection.

But some educators caution that schools need to consider what may be lost when real-life interaction is replaced by a virtual connection.

Or perhaps Kael, speaking of her tenuous virtual connection with Nixon's voters, meant something even simpler and stranger: that when she went to the theatre and saw the same movies that other people were watching in other parts of the country at exactly the same time, she felt that she was somehow in their presence.

"We want to create that feeling of that virtual connection to other athletes that are like us".