Technology has made communication faster and more interactive. I am unable to fully express how much it has positively affected my family. I am from Pennsylvania, which is more than a stone’s throw from Utah. My wife, Alessandra, is from Brazil which is even farther away. If we lived in a time period fifteen years ago, we would correspond with our families by postal mail and occasional phone calls. However, today we reap great benefits from advances in technology. Through the improvements of the phone, we can talk with our distant families inexpensively. E-mail permits us to send letters to our families which arrive in minutes, rather than weeks. E-mail is also used to share pictures with each other. Our nieces and nephews, in Brazil, have learned how to chat with us using MSN Messenger. (We are hoping their parents will catch up soon.) Most importantly, we’ve greatly appreciated the small miracles that the Web Camera brings. Using the Internet, we are able to hold video conversations. While it hasn’t replaced visits to Pennsylvania and Brazil, technology has made it less disheartening to be so far from the ones we love.