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Do you really need to do a digital detox?
Published by Ewan Spence at 8:50 UTC, June 15th 2010
Not that anyone here at All About Symbian could ever manage this (no, I don’t want this as a challenge!) but Dan Roberts has written about the potential effects that the information overload is placing on people. “Our data suggests that if you are not giving yourself a break, you are hindering your brain's ability to consolidate memories and experiences," said neuroscientist Lila Davachi. More quotes below.
Part of this “speed of life” is down to the modern social web – look at the phenomenal amount of information that flows through the average Twitter or Facebook account. Pair this up with people wanting to not miss anything and you are asking from trouble.
While it is a concern, the article put this into context, "nobody has studied this question directly," says psychiatric professor Dr Gary Small. "Although a causal relationship has not been confirmed, many studies have found an association between more time with technology and a lower attention span."
To be honest I’d recommend a good time management system to these people rather than the “digital detox” that is being suggested by Roberts, but it would be interesting to know if the All About Symbian readers think the connected world is too fast, if it’s more an age thing, or just a handful of people who live on the social media sites that just want to read everything making a big fuss about how hard their lifestyle is(!)
-- Ewan Spence, June 2010.
News Discussion
To take in knowledge passively deactivates your brain and it's basically like sitting down and watch to much TV. (E.g. that's why it's better to read a book to engage your brain in producing pictures and such).
But going back into the topic I believe it's true that there is very much information out on the "World Wide Web" so in essential the problem is to limit yourself rather than try to gather all the information. (Which is virtually impossible). At least that's the conclusion from a course I took last year which translates to roughly "AVS2220 - ICT, communication and creation of knowledge"
Another aspect is how the particular "Mobile Worker" sees his job and what kind of norms that follows him. Here as you suggested a better 'time management' can help to ease the burden. When you work you work, when you relax you do so. It also comes to how the different technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, email are used which is here where the norms for that particular person plays in.
Actually this is something that is a common problem for the "mobile worker" something I learnt this year from the course "KULT2201 - ICT and the change of culture".
From my point of view one should both define one's own norms in regards to the use of technology and then also restrict oneself to the amount of information one are trying to process.
I would also add to the mix of exercising your body regularly when you have to time to do so.
But that's just me :)
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