Gadgets Obsession: The Time To Make A Living?

When historians get around to discuss the future of the 21 century, one might conclude that humanity is divided into those who obsessively embraced technology, and who were in their lives.

The story is set yet, but honestly, it does not look good for someone who thinks a pill is what you take for a headache.

Last week in London, a city prepare to be devoured by massive protests against poverty and austerity, thousands of people flocked to buy electronic devices that were minimally different from the devices they replace.

Gadgets obsession: the time to make a living?

March 28, 2011

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All a blur ... need new gadgets are phenomenal.

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As more and more connected to technology, gadgets a growing clamor it raises new, says William Langley

When future historians come around to thinking about the 21 century, they conclude that humanity was divided between those who have embraced technology and those who had life.

The story takes place again, but frankly, does not look good for anyone who thinks this is a pill that is taken for the headache.

Last week in London, preparing for the city engulfed by the mass demonstrations against the hardship and austerity, thousands of people clamored to buy electronic gadgets, which were slightly different gadgets have replaced them.

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In Regent Street, started the queue for iPad 2, although elegant and stylish piece of equipment, three days before the thing is on sale.

From prejudice to Apple for product updates faster, may not be long before the queuers arrive at the sales counter will find that what was in the queue already been replaced by something else.

In other stores around the country have been hastily Nintendo 3DS new game console, which the company accounts the first to enter the 3D images, which does not require them to wear glasses embarrassingly uncool. Still, the mutterings among the first that made the screen, your eyes go funny.

In the whirl and glare of modern techno-land, money matters only. The important thing is to be first among your friends to have the new toy. Assuming you have friends. Do not even want.

Recent research suggests that the gadgets are increasingly replacing the complexity of human relationships and that people attach to human-type qualities to them. If we ignore the instructions of a sat-nav, we are concerned that their "feelings" will hurt, and we share the Sonic the Hedgehog has pain when he headbutt a barrier.

Hardcore Gadget Freak Tell try something similar to the feelings of love, when the news of a new device comes out.

And if the drink can only be achieved by transferring a large wodges of money, it is equally enjoyable.

A study published late last year suggested that the British and spend an average of nine hours a day connected to some type of electronic devices. It is four hours and five minutes on the computer one hour 16 minutes watching TV, 38 minutes on the phone and microwave 10 minutes - but on the plus side, the total allowed multiple-back, by which one can see television, surf the Internet, smart phone, text and cook a pizza at the same time.

A third of Britons think their championship gadget life skills most valuable, cooking, DIY, gardening and speak a foreign language is lagging behind.

According to the software company PC Tools, we are now "a nation full of tech-obsessed geek that geeks are proud of our ability."

Richard Clooke, a company spokesman said it was "good to see that" the adoption of a digital lifestyle has become more technology enthusiasts British.

What happened to simple get-away-from-it-all pleasures, like walking the dog? Well, the dogs are now online: a device mounted in puppies necklace called Tweet - presented at Crufts this month - sending messages from your pet on your phone or your laptop. Ask a dog in the "heel" and a message that says. "Behind you, man"

Or sex? Research in the United States found that 22 percent of Americans, whose relationship was interrupted by a ringing cell phone took the call.

Or just settle down with a cup of tea? There are now ReadyWhenUR the boiler that heats when the text "teeth" for his home phone number.

Or go to war? In 2005, Finland has made to the computer addiction reasons for exemption from military service.

There is an argument that nothing has really changed.

The New Yorker magazine recently carried a cartoon showing three cavemen sitting around a pile of coals, with a saying. "Before we got the fire, we used to talk to each other"

Socrates condemned the invention of writing the grounds that "it will create forgetfulness in the souls of men, because they will not use their memories. They will rely on external written characters and not remember of themselves. "

In the last century, music comics, television and pop all accused of decay of young impressionable minds, but the evidence showed that IQ has continued to increase.

The difference today is the sheer speed and magnitude of technological advances, and the question is not whether it makes us more intelligent or stupid, but if it makes us less human.

In his book alarming, search for identity, Baroness Greenfield, the distinguished Oxford neuroscientist, says that the exposure of saturation of the modern technology - whether in the form of iPods or advanced medical procedures - is irrevocably change the way our brain works.

"It is quite clear that the world of two-dimensional screen based on that for many adolescents - and a growing number of adults - prefer to live is producing changes in behavior," he writes.

"The attention span is shorter, personal communication skills are reduced, and there is a marked reduction in the capacity for abstract thought.

"It's almost as if something is not really happened until it has been posted on Facebook, Bebo or YouTube. Unless we awaken to the damage that gadget filled, the pharmaceutical industry improved 21st century are doing to our brains, we could be sleepwalking towards a future in which neuro-chip blurs the boundary between the living and non-living machines, and between our body and the outside world. "

What if, instead of another new toy, there is a new reality coming along?