http://www.stlamerican.com/news/editorials/article_a4e545bc-c349-11e2-8bee-0019bb2963f4.htmlThe college students going through commencement this spring in Missouri and all around the nation are entering the larger world outside their schools’ walls at a time when that world is changing more rapidly than ever before, for better and worse. They are joining a world with exploding medical knowledge that is affording longer, healthier lives for many, though access to health care continues to be denied to many low-income people, often due to the whims of ideologically driven Republican legislators. They are joining a world where with the advent of Google Glass many people will soon have a phone in their peripheral vision, so even more of us will be walking around talking to themselves. We are more connected – yet more distant – than ever before, steadily losing the ability to talk to one another face to face, spending entire family meals and dinner dates with faces buried in gadgets.