Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.