When are the tools we use enough? At what point will we have enough enough work to view ourselves as satisfied? The advancement of technology, of the tools we use to work, has always come with the promise of a easier, more convinient life. We are told that these tools will make production faster, that we will have more time for outselves and our families, yet the amount of weekly work has remained the same. The new tools promise to make work faster, but they just round off the edges that add uniqueness to the work that we do. Instead of making more time for ourselves, we are removing more of ourselves from the equasion. I was once told by one of my art history professors that "Nothing is new under the sun." and that the more we learn art history, the more this becomes apparent. Now this is not something that was ment to discourage the young artists in the room looking to make something exciting and new, but to hopefully relieve the presures of expectation and weight that novelty and creation and bring. She bookmatched that statement with a plea to the class. "If you wish to make something that is timeless, then engage with the human conversation" That conversation was "what does it mean to be human, why do we exist." I see our goal as imagemakers and visual communicators is to connect with other people and help others connect with each other. The need to connect will never go away and there will always be a place for us to reach out to each other. If this goal is true, then the ever increasing advancement of tools, often removing the need for further contact and collaberation with other people, misses the point of why we use these tools in the first place and act against our greater goal to connect. The tool should not guide the hand, rather the hand guide the tool. As tools become more convinient and attempt to "make our lives easier," we lose those moments of human connection even more.