A constant craving for mobile: Our love affair with mobile devices is more than just a distraction - it may be changing our personalities
Posted in: Mobile & Wireless at 19/06/2012 18:13
When you wake up, do you check your emails on your phone in the time it takes your laptop to start up? Do you sometimes feel a buzz in your pocket when there is nothing there? Do you keep your Blackberry on the table at a restaurant, like a digital side plate? Do you struggle to finish a page of a book before your hand twitches and your brain starts imagining the status updates you're almost certainly not missing out on?
No? Then carry on, you're fine. But if you do any of these things and wonder what the technology in your hand might be doing to your head, read on (after you've checked your inbox).
The idea that the internet is diminishing our brains despite linking us to vast reservoirs of knowledge is almost as old as the web, and continues to divide psychologists and neurologists.
To continue reading this report in The Independent, go to:
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/a-constant-craving-for-mobile-7858608.html
