Various gadgets have become so tightly embedded in our lives that sometimes you don't even notice how much you get attached to them.
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The other day I came across a simply gorgeous selection of pictures from AdMe, showing the dependence of modern people on gadgets. He laughed heartily at her and forgot. And just yesterday I felt from my own experience how true these ironic caricatures turned out to be.
Recently, a doctor prescribed me to go to physiotherapy, and I had never been to these procedures, so I did not even know what they were doing there. In short, electrodes are hooked to you and then asked for 20-30 minutes either to sit or lie and not move. A common routine procedure, but at first glance.
The beauty of physiotherapy is that you can't use any technique, it's done for safety. As a result, you just lie there and cannot even listen to music. And you know, the desire to reach for a smartphone or e-book occurred to me, probably almost every minute. Intellectually, I understand that this is not worth doing, but a kind of 'urge' still appears.
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At the same time, I can't say that I would spend time with a smartphone with particular benefit in these 20 minutes. Yes, I would check my mail and social networks, read my favorite bands and sites, maybe watch a movie or listen to music, but that's all. And yet, when you are not doing anything, time passes very slowly. So I'll take a regular paper book with me tomorrow.
To be honest, I was sincerely amazed at my own reaction to parting with a smartphone for literally 20 minutes. I didn't expect to be so strongly attached to him.
Another good example of this kind of dependency is the screen time on a smartphone. This information is usually used to estimate how long the device lasts without recharging, but I decided to consider it in a different way. In fact, these numbers tell us how much time a day we sit, buried in a smartphone, and I note that two or three hours are still very small figures, for some they even go up to six hours a day. A quarter of a day on the phone!
However, I do not think that this is a reason for panic, rather, just an interesting observation, because a smartphone is now largely replacing a computer, so it is not surprising that people spend more and more time with it. In the end, earlier this time was spent sitting at the computer, now the mobile era has just come.
Have you ever had situations when the lack of a smartphone at hand was especially noticeable and caused anxiety (this is not about when you urgently need to contact someone, but the device is dead)? How many hours do you spend with your gadget per day? What do you think about such a global 'mobilization'?