When Technology Addiction Takes Over Your Life. Are you a tangled mess of BlackBerrys, emails, PDAs, iPhones, laptops, and cell phones?
Here’s how to untangle your life and find healthy balance. Why do I need to register or sign in for WebMD to save? We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. Jenn Hoffman, Phoenix-based CEO of The J Brand Group, should have been enjoying a relaxing vacation on the Cote d'Azur. Sipping champagne and nibbling on cheese at the posh Louis XV restaurant, she was eagerly awaiting her entree, a poached Breton lobster. She lunged for it and swiftly pecked out a response to my request for BlackBerry anecdotes: "I'm so addicted to this device that I stopped mid-bite to rush to send this message.
"My BlackBerry runs my life," Hoffman says. Hoffman is not alone in dealing with technology overload. (Are you addicted to technology? Continue reading below... The Paradox of Modern Life We are now more wired than ever. It's the new epidemic, Hallowell says. Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine. Illustration by Guy Billout "Dave, stop.
Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins.
Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. Also see: Real-Time Data And A More Personalized Web - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement As Web designers, we face a daily struggle to keep pace with advances in technology, new standards and new user expectations.
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Since the arrival of the new Web, we’ve been enraptured by social media. We share links, we “follow,” we “poke,” we’ve become accustomed to it all. Web gurus and industry analysts are simultaneously arriving at the same conclusion: we are entering a new chapter in the evolution of the Web. Welcome to the new era. The Future Of The Web: Where Will We Be In Five Years? Nov 03 2009 We’re approaching the end of 2009, and many people are wondering what the future will bring.
While no one can predict for sure what the Internet holds in its future, there are indicators and trends that can point us in the right direction. A ton of technologies are ripe for further development in the coming few years. Social media and related apps are definitely going to be at the forefront of the Web for a long time. But plenty of other technologies are on the verge of becoming mainstream, either because of more social acceptance or because of advancements in hardware and applications. 1. Submitted on Twitter by @mikaelgramont and @simplybastow. Some companies are already making strides in the micro-payment arena. Micro-payments will likely be popular among online magazines and news services, as well as other providers of in-depth content. The most prevalent current micro-payment systems are within MMORPGs (massively multi-player online role-playing games). Further Resources.