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TM Information Services provides counseling and education regarding personal health record (PHR) documentation and the Better Living Through Well Being on-line newsletter. We also provide, tools for efficiency and quality of life, products to enhance wellness and promote awareness, and living microgreens through Greenman Microgreens. We've changed the name of our electronic newsletter from "Better Living Through Technology" to "Better Living Through Well Being." Since TM Information Services began medical communications consulting several years ago, our focus was already shifting from primarily technology consulting, so this just makes it official. Technology is going to be increasingly embedded in the practice of clinical medicine going forward anyway, so we are not really taking it out of the picture. This is a good opportunity to reflect on the definition of technology and what it means to us. Technology is defined as the branch of knowledge that deals with the industrial arts and sciences, and we've always believed that technology is also part of a larger spectrum of human activity and that a society or culture can interact with and shape technologies that are used. In this, we differ from technological determinists who imply that the progression of a technology cannot be controlled and that people cannot change it or stop it once it is started. In his essay, "Technology as Forms of Life," Langdon Winner coined the term "technological somnambulism" and he wonders whether or not we are simply sleepwalking though our existence with little concern or knowledge as to how we truly interact with technology. He states it is still possible for us to wake up and once again take control of the direction in which we are traveling. We acknowledge that there are ethical questions specific to the Technology Age. Far from being a mere tool, each piece of technology is endowed with the ethical commitments given to it by those who made it and have decided how it must be used. For example, in the area of computer security, ...