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faryl
8/23/2016 1:55:25 PM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
That's fascinating!
I love reading and get super-sucked into books once I get started (I read them cover-to-cover...unless some sort of real life commitment gets in the way of that!).
After recently binging on Neil Gaiman books on my kindle, I started getting migraines and found that even looking down at my phone to respond to quick texts were painful - I think I gave myself "texting neck" from reading!
I ended up buying these glasses that use mirrors so that people can watch TV lying down and using those to read with for a bit. (They really helped my neck, but they're pretty heavy & uncomfortable - then again, they were only $15!)
With more reports like this, maybe there will be a market for improving these types of technology. (It made me appreciate the idea of Google Glass, if only for ergonomics!)
faryl
8/23/2016 1:42:02 PM
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Re: Guilty
I'm sure I am.
Even if I'm not watching it, we always have the TV on as background noise, and even though I avoid my desktop (to avoid getting "sucked in" and lost my iPad :( , time spent texting, looking up info, checking messages, managing my to-do list, shopping, and even studying all require screen time of some sort.
I even use apps for scheduling yoga classes to attend and as meditation timers!
DHagar
8/23/2016 1:27:18 PM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
@faryl, great investment tips! You are on it. I think those have promising returns for the future!
faryl
8/23/2016 1:21:26 PM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
I remember a college professor suggesting we consider jobs related to things aging baby-boomers would need; opthamology was high on that list back then - and that was before PCs/internet/smart phones.
It's probably still not too late to invest in Lens Crafter! :)
Ariella
8/23/2016 8:28:29 AM
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Re: Screens
<I've often said that the pointed stick was a great idea, fire was nice, and it's all been downhill from there.> You don't care for the wheel? @John Barnes
JohnBarnes
8/22/2016 8:52:54 PM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
Ariella,
And the "something to do with the hands" aspect is itself in part a product of media. When they were making Clueless, Amy Heckerling (writer/director) had become fascinated with how teenage girls in affluent S. Cali were constantly on the phone -- but those girls mostly just held it to their heads. She wanted the cell phones to be constantly emphasized (and didn't want a whole cast leaning sideways). So she asked Alicia Silverstone and the other girls to come up with and use a bunch of attention-getting cell-phone gestures. Within months of the movie's release, young women were doing those gestures on every continent except possibly Antarctica.
And all that will be obsolete in a short time, since they were doing it with flip phones.
JohnBarnes
8/22/2016 8:37:17 PM
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Re: Screens
Vnewman,
I've often said that the pointed stick was a great idea, fire was nice, and it's all been downhill from there.
The first public criticism of a "medium" in written Western history was the exchange between Solon (Archon of Athens) and Thespis (the probably mythical first actor). Solon pointed out that Thespis was developing techniques for appearing to be something or someone you were not -- i.e. a more skilled liar -- and the Greek account we have gives him the last word -- "if we tolerate this in the temple we will soon have it in all our business."
Everything we say about the lowest-common-denominator aspects of the pop culture market today was said by Beaumont and Fletcher in their hilarious Knight of the Burning Pestle (historical context: Fletcher probably collaborated with the young Shakespeare on The Two Noble Kinsmen, and surely saw most of Shakespeare's works in their first performances, before he penned his part of KBP, whose point is basically that audiences are stupid and theatre panders to them).
And Richard Sheridan brilliantly satirized the novel-obsessed young rich women of his day in The Rivals; Lydia Languish is every bit as devoted to her novels as any modern kid to a video or computer game.
vnewman
8/22/2016 4:56:24 PM
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Re: Screens
@JohnBarnes - you make a great point. All new technologies seem to be the precursor to the doom of civilization (as we know it).
dcawrey
8/22/2016 11:42:25 AM
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Re: Screens
Only 45%? I'm sure there are many, many people who use screens much more than that. Only Pokemon Go has gotten them outside lately – surely there will be more apps like this that will compel people to use their screens outdoors.
batye
8/22/2016 11:00:45 AM
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Re: Staring at a Screen
@Ariella I think this days many people get addicted to internet... - how I see it :(...
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