** Sad that so many today have become slaves to their techno-gadgets and things. **

Date:   6/18/2018 6:25:09 PM ( 6 y ago)

** Here is one of the more cunning and dangerous things I have noticed {as a retired electrical engineer} is most people today seem permanently attached to a smart phone. While I can understand the basic need of these devices - it has become a form of domination and control. Most of which I see causing a social crisis of major proportions!

It has become ingrained in the social physic. It is similar to the conditions of people on Hard Drugs - who once hooked, will deny the dependency and continue the habit - no matter which methods are used to break their habit!

Sad that so many today have become slaves to their techno-gadgets and things.

** BTW: I have had and used mobile phones in my work for over 30 years and never was a motor mouth; in fact, I kept my usage low, when I retired had over 10,000 unused minutes.
So did not have this obsession with a smart fon!

My outlook {spanning some 40+ years with electronics and computer systems} is that technology is great as long as it works correctly and can be beneficial. It is necessary to learn how and when to properly use technology.

But it becomes an another story when the technology controls {or dominates} you.
Which appears to be the present state of affairs for much of the technology used in the world today!

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Family Section
The Dangers of Distracted Parenting

When it comes to children’s development, parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own. Time spent online or looking at a cell fon in their hands!

- Erika Christakis

July/August 2018 Issue
Edmon de Haro

Smartphones have by now been implicated in so many crummy outcomes—car fatalities, sleep disturbances, empathy loss, relationship problems, failure to notice a clown on a
unicycle—that it almost seems easier to list the things they don’t mess up than the things they do. Our society may be reaching peak criticism of digital devices.


Even so, emerging research suggests that a key problem remains underappreciated. It involves kids’ development, but it’s probably not what you think. More than screen-obsessed young children, we should be concerned about tuned-out parents.


July/August 2018 Issue
Edmon de Haro



 

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