Why It's Bad That Smartphones Have Banished Boredom

Fil 28/09/2012

Why It’s Bad That Smartphones Have Banished Boredom - Slashdot
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"Doug Gross writes that thanks to technology, there’s been a recent sea change in how people today kill time. ’Those dog-eared magazines in your doctor’s office are going unread. Your fellow customers in line at the deli counter are being ignored. And simply gazing around at one’s surroundings? Forget about it.’ With their games, music, videos, social media and texting, smartphones ’superstimulate,’ a desire humans have to play when things get dull, says anthropologist Christopher Lynn and he believes that modern society may be making that desire even stronger. ’When you’re habituated to constant stimulation, when you lack it, you sort of don’t know what to do with yourself ...,’ says Lynn. ’When we aren’t used to having down time, it results in anxiety. ’Oh my god, I should be doing something.’ And we reach for the smartphone.

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