"But we didn't want the action side of the story to take over the human element."
So he has tried to keep the human element in mind.
So despite all the technology, the human element is still important.
I guess that's what you get when the human element is still involved.
As for the human element, it was still at work.
"There was just too much of the human element in him."
"The play is about that human element and its cost."
The human element is no more and lives only in memory.
And so long as there was a human element they would not have that chance.
You're correct about that but there still are human and time elements here.