Regardless of the endless technology touch points, some digital consumers still believe in the human touch.
The human touch is certainly important if you have high-value content, such as marketing messages.
In fact, the Borg Queen had tempted Data, by granting the android the sensation of human touch.
She had overcome extreme shyness and had become very sure of herself without ever losing her human touch.
Often the service professional is the only human touch point to the customer.
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It was previously thought by some experts that such young babies were not developed enough to benefit from human touch.
Low-skilled occupations have dodged this fate, as many of those professions require a human touch that cannot be outsourced or automated.
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In fact, the world champion complained that IBM had cheated, that no machine could play with such a deft human touch.
While some people may always want the human touch, I prefer advice and management without having to deal with a human advisor.
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They are emphasizing the sport's human touch over videogames and smartphone apps.
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This proved to his detractors that he has no human touch a dangerous deficiency for a politician facing parliamentary elections in two months.
Here was a complex problem: how to reconcile Britain's traditional gift for formal ceremony with the modern desire for the human touch.
When they realize that the computer is actually enhancing customer service and lets them add the human touch, they will change their minds.
Credit unions can often also be more flexible than banks in assessing borrowers for loans, and offer a human touch in handling your bank accounts.
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Wealthfront's clients value transparency more than a human touch, he adds.
Habitually deleting blatantly commercial messages from our inboxes and chucking print ads that get stuffed into our snail mailboxes, we undeniably remain suckers for the human touch.
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So as Election Day draws closer and the political tactics get dirtier, perhaps showing a little guilt could be the human touch that gets the voting public on side.
As part of its commitment to have zero environmental impact, the entire camp is dismantled at the end of each season, leaving behind no trace of human touch among the vast glacier landscape.
"What I really feel very strongly about, and I hope reflects in all aspects of my work, is the human touch, the humanness of things, the positive and sometimes the negative and sometimes the sad, " Christenberry says.
Oppenheimer's directorship of Los Alamos required both the scientific skills to understand every aspect of the bomb's design and the human touch necessary to manage the thousands of scientists and engineers living, in total secrecy, atop an isolated mesa in the wilds of New Mexico.
The human need for touch, love, pleasure and company do not diminish with age.
Weber's God remained aloof whereas the Pentecostals' God reaches down to touch the human heart.
Throughout history, human beings have invented representational systems writing, music notation, double-entry bookkeeping to grasp with the mind what human hands could never touch.
So, how does a small business maintain a competitive advantage in the face of pressure from high tech innovation and the primordial human desire for high touch connection?
Touch is not intuitive, because in fifty million years of human evolution, we do not touch each other and in the US, it's politically incorrect.
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Companies are, nevertheless, getting established in fields that will touch almost every human endeavor.
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For certain travelers, even seasoned business travelers, a touch of personalized human interaction could make a world of difference.
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