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JohnBarnes
8/22/2016 7:17:31 AM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
ariella, DMHagar,
It's the biggest boon to the medical industry since high fructose corn syrup. Maybe since tobacco!
And to think some people don't believe in progress.
JohnBarnes
8/22/2016 7:24:22 AM
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Re: Screens
vnewman,
You can find similar dire forecasts about broadcast radio back in the 1930s: fewer people would learn to play instruments, people were quitting clubs and not going to social venues and events because they wanted to stay home and listen to radio dramas, and the coming wave of radios in automobiles was going to distract drivers who would forget they were doing something dangerous that demanded their full attention in order to catch what happened next in the story.
JohnBarnes
8/22/2016 7:32:48 AM
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One flaw in method ...
Notice, though, that the study assumes everyone sleeps eight hours a night. In fact, that varies all over the place, with many people running on about 6.5 all the time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/24/average-daily-nightly-sleep-country-world_n_3805886.html
Of course there are those who think that there's another relationship going on between the screen and the sleep:
xhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/44815618/Sleep_patterns_electronic_media_exposure20160417-16100-8hpm1p.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ56TQJRTWSMTNPEA&Expires=1471869059&Signature=arHZh6q7vIdZn9WG2zkhZ68K7AI%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DSleep_patterns_electronic_media_exposure.pdf
Ariella
8/22/2016 8:24:13 AM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
@JohnBarne Certainly some people find it as addictive as tobacco. I've even seen suggestions that smartphones are a replacement for cigarettes in giving people something to do with their hands.
pmassam
8/22/2016 10:05:41 AM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
@Ariella,
Yes, that was recognised as early as 2010 with the first 'rehab' emerging:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/7467200/Rehab-clinic-for-children-internet-and-technology-addicts-founded.html
I don't think you can or should stop the information flow. e.g. MIT recently put all their courses online to give greater access to courseware, but perhaps 'everything in moderation' should be more liberally applied here.
Ariella
8/22/2016 10:06:38 AM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
@pmassam I agree; it's pretty much always the wisest course.
batye
8/22/2016 11:00:45 AM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
@Ariella I think this days many people get addicted to internet... - how I see it :(...
dcawrey
8/22/2016 11:42:25 AM
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Re: Screens
Only 45%? I'm sure there are many, many people who use screens much more than that. Only Pokemon Go has gotten them outside lately – surely there will be more apps like this that will compel people to use their screens outdoors.
vnewman
8/22/2016 4:56:24 PM
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Re: Screens
@JohnBarnes - you make a great point. All new technologies seem to be the precursor to the doom of civilization (as we know it).
JohnBarnes
8/22/2016 8:37:17 PM
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Re: Screens
Vnewman,
I've often said that the pointed stick was a great idea, fire was nice, and it's all been downhill from there.
The first public criticism of a "medium" in written Western history was the exchange between Solon (Archon of Athens) and Thespis (the probably mythical first actor). Solon pointed out that Thespis was developing techniques for appearing to be something or someone you were not -- i.e. a more skilled liar -- and the Greek account we have gives him the last word -- "if we tolerate this in the temple we will soon have it in all our business."
Everything we say about the lowest-common-denominator aspects of the pop culture market today was said by Beaumont and Fletcher in their hilarious Knight of the Burning Pestle (historical context: Fletcher probably collaborated with the young Shakespeare on The Two Noble Kinsmen, and surely saw most of Shakespeare's works in their first performances, before he penned his part of KBP, whose point is basically that audiences are stupid and theatre panders to them).
And Richard Sheridan brilliantly satirized the novel-obsessed young rich women of his day in The Rivals; Lydia Languish is every bit as devoted to her novels as any modern kid to a video or computer game.
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