How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by perseusprime11 on Friday May 20, 2016 @03:48PM (#11740894)

+1 Smartphone is a universal addiction as opposed to cigarette smoking. If we do not do something about this, our future humans will walk around with stiff necks as this will be coded into our DNA and we will evolve accordingly.

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Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by theseatoms on Friday May 20, 2016 @03:58PM (#11740972)

For these reasons, I've started to log my smartphone usage. God knows everyone else is.

It should be fun to look at the data after a few weeks of logging via a free app.

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Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by pzenger on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:22PM (#11741172)

Which app are you using to do this? I'm interested in trying this as well.

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Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by theseatoms on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:38PM (#11741300)

I've been running this for only the past week.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gph...

I noticed it has 'Export to csv' functionality, which is convenient. But I haven't yet verified that it works.

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Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by EliRivers on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:51PM (#11741408)

For a moment I laughed hard at this, thinking it was ironic humour. But now I'm scared it's not.

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Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by Fedex on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:25PM (#11741203)

I'd like to start this as well, which app do you recommend?

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Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by chillacy on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:38PM (#11741303)

That's not really how evolution works.. there would have to be selection pressure that would favor the smartphone addicted

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Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by rcpt on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:47PM (#11741373)

Tinder

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Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by sn9 on Friday May 20, 2016 @08:30PM (#11742550)

There would have to be selective pressure for people with the genetics for a naturally forward leaning head.

For most people, that's bad posture deviating from a more neutral head, so isn't genetic.

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Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by perseusprime11 on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:53PM (#11741429)

I used to think like you but after reading Sapiens I now understand how these things work.

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