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Then there are Smart TV’s, watches, washing machines. Cookers…….
I like outdoor advertising screens as they add to the general illumination of streets at night time. I seldom notice what is being displayed on them.
Thinking of yesterdays redundancy vision another job gone as no one has to come round and change the paper advertising on the boards.
I'm as seduced as many by the screen in my hand - and sometimes think that the easy access to information makes me better informed than before. But what started as a novelty, then became a pastime, has most likely become an addiction.
At home, in the increasingly rare times that the family inhabit the same space, the TV may be on few will do more than glance at it. We'll all be absorbed in our hand-held gadgets.. chatting to people not present, gaming, reading. But whatever we're doing or reading seldom creates any discussion in the room. I have long felt that our online connectivity has come at the price of a deeper human connection. All of which makes me rather sad, and even more nostalgic for the time when there were really only TV screens in one corner of ONE room - and VDU screens in some workplaces.
I love that I can keep in touch with people all over the world so easily, but at the same time having online friends discourages some of my now adult kids from seeking out real-life physical friends and actually leaving the house to spend time with them.
My phone really isn't very smart so I only use it for bus times and the occasional directions. My life certainly doesn't revolve around it - it's usually on charge somewhere in the house.
My TV viewing (on our 1 TV in just 1 room!) has shrunk to no more than 5 hours a week - instead you'll find me listening to the radio/Ipod, but even then I still feel I spend too much time on the computer.
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