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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.
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 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.
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
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 7:17:31 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.
Adi
8/22/2016 7:06:47 AM
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Re: Screens
@vnewman Yes, I think cable TV probably did result in all those things. The web is likely building on that base, and taking it even further...:)
Adi
8/22/2016 7:04:26 AM
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Re: Guilty
@afwriter - it would seem that most of us are. For a lot of us, the majority of work hours are spent staring at a screen. But I think too many us also rely on screens for entertainment and personal communication.
Ariella
8/21/2016 7:45:25 PM
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Re: Screens
@vnewman True, many spend nearly all their waking hours looking at a screen. It's possible that the responses include people who spend next to no time in front of a screen, and that brings down the overall average.
vnewman
8/20/2016 11:00:54 PM
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Re: Screens
By the way this number seems on the Low side to me. I would've guessed it was more.
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