Chances are you've witnessed and even took active part in a lot of indiscriminate gadget use.
But staying silent about bad technology habits is making things worse for all of us.
We need to develop social antibodies, defenses against new harmful behaviors, or else we'll end up serving technology instead of it serving us.
If we don’t build social antibodies, the disease of distraction will become the new normal.
To do this, we need to find out who's to blame for our distraction and what we need to do about it.
Read the whole blog post at: http://www.nirandfar.com/2016/03/why-people-check-their-phones-at-the-wrong-times.html
20. At corporate meetings,
someone (typically the highest-
paid person in the room) starts
using his or her personal
technology.
21. This sends a message to
everyone in the room
that gadget time is
more important
than their time.
22. This also prevents the person
using the device from
participating in the discussion,
which means the meeting
wasn’t worth having
in the first place.
34. The idea is not to
disavow technology
completely, but to
encourage people
to appreciate its
power, and to
be aware when
its power over them
is becoming a
problem.