This is an interesting PBS 5Across video featuring the conversation among Leif Hansen, Annalee Newitz, Dom Sagolla, Deborah Schultz, and Dr. Jim Taylor about the impact of technology in our lives.
A LexisNexis survey found that if you add up the time people spend using email, web browsers, instant messaging, and Microsoft Office, it comes to 15.9 hours per day. That's extraordinary.
Quotation: MediaShift . 5Across: How to Deal with Technology Overload | PBS
Below is a casual outline I made while listening to the video (and yes, I was multitasking so the outline is very loose). If you would prefer to skip to a particular section in the video that interests you, go to this link at PBS' MediaShift site and watch just that section.
Taking Breaks
- How can technology serve your goals
- How does it get in the way of your goals
- 12 stages: curiosity, invite participation, cut back ... get curious again
- Good or bad? = Is work work good or bad for me
- Rescue time: Break Minder (Windows), Time Out (Mac), Freedom (Mac)
- Input days or Output days
Virtual vs. Real World
- Life is dirty; Tech is cleaner and more linear
- Tech driving us vs. us using it
- Sharing physical space
- Always on, always live
- What can't be digitized from face to face
Online Etiquette
- What are the new rules, the new contexts
- Internet is a teenager
- Reflection versus speed
- Etiquette around when we are to respond to things
Psychological Issues
- External validation
- FOMO (Fear of missing out)
- Technology addiction
- Law of unintended consequences
Benefits of Technology
- Avoid judgement by shedding part of our identity
- Transparency
Implanted Technology
- Biology and technology = deeper disconnect spiritually
- Need info at my fingertips
- Need to be bored which provides discipline
- Expectations of what being present means
