Here are some reasons to ponder whether staring at our phone all the time is a smart move?
For your new year’s resolutions & consideration:
1) Studying attention & memory as it is effected by the technology & pace of modern culture. Being off-grid & in nature repairs our tech-hysteria & dependence:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?_r=0
2) Cartographic clues and cognitive overhead: Reading online doesn’t work properly, physical print helps you remember things.http://www.fastcompany.com/3009366/leadership-now/you-wont-remember-this-article-or-anything-else-you-read-online-unless-you-pr
3) We pay a price for being over attached to tech – it is changing the way we behave, interact, and exist within the moment.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html
I love the notion that constantly filming your present puts you in a simulacram, where you are the future self reviewing your past at present. It’s a fascinating removal of oneself for reality. Barring a very rare moment, my wife and I *never* both have devices out, and exceedingly rarely have one device out in front of one another. Never, ever, ever at dinner / meals together.
4) Material items and stuff not only won’t make you happy, it makes you less happy. The brain craves experience and travels, not stress of things we don’t need:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/business/08consume.html
5) Vacations have been poisoned, of course:http://www.economist.com/node/16846330?story_id=16846330