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Student ‘addiction’ to technology ‘similar to drug cravings’, study finds
Withdrawal symptoms experienced by young people deprived of gadgets and technology is compared to those felt by drug addicts or smokers going “cold turkey”, a study has concluded.
Researchers found nearly four in five students had significant mental and physical distress, panic, confusion and extreme isolation when forced to unplug from technology for an entire day.
They found college students at campuses across the globe admitted being “addicted” to modern technology such as mobile phones, laptops and television as well as social networking such as Facebook and Twitter.
A “clear majority” of almost 1,000 university students, interviewed at 12 campuses in 10 countries, including Britain, America and China, were unable to voluntarily avoid their gadgets for one full day, they concluded.
The University of Maryland research described students’ thoughts in vivid detail, in which they admit to cravings, anxiety attacks and depression when forced to abstain from using media.
One unnamed American college student told of their overwhelming cravings, which they confessed was similar to “itching like a crackhead (crack cocaine addict)”.
Next thing you know it, it will be a class 4 felony for illegal possession of a cell phone, class 3 for a laptop, class 1 for a desktop, and god forbid you have dual monitors or a projector screen - straight to class X.
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1 year agoArt by Steve Miller.
Things like this are incredibly impressive to me…I can hardly take a picture that’s not blurry…or draw a straight line, and here this guy has done the best of both and used oil paints to perfectly recreate this image…
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Back in 1997, when Bill and Melinda Gates built their house in Medina, Washington, the world waited with bated breath to see what the software king had envisaged. Xanadu 2.0, as the house, on the shores of Lake Washington, is nicknamed, was full of hi-tech surprises — but what would you expect in a residence (land included) valued at almost $150 million and owned by one of the world’s richest men? Twelve years on, here is the company Gates founded, Microsoft, showing off its vision of domestic technology for the year 2019. As well as a mirror that organizes your closet, suggesting what you wear — mis-match! — there’s all kinds of delicious kitchen gadgets, plus (and this is my favourite bit) interactive wallpaper for the kids’ rooms. Most eye-opening moment, however, is the table that can turn into a screen for your smartphone, gobbling up the info on a common-or-garden paper business card and transferring it to your cell. It rather knocks the Microsoft Surface into a cocked hat…This is probably one of the most badass things I’ve seen in a while…
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1 year agoThis is mostly true - we all have our preferences, but if it’s good, it’s good.
(Source: astreaux-logy)
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1 year agoIt’s true.
(Source: soulovisual)
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I love this one..
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1 year agoSeems about right
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Impressive Mustaches
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