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<\/a><\/div>\n <\/span><\/span> I\u2019m not anti-technology by any means. This, after all, is my 504 blog post in 2 1\/2 years!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n However, I am concerned about \u201cyoung people these days\u201d and how the cyberwhirl encourages distraction, making doing things that require sustained awareness more difficult, and decreasing enjoyment in the simple things \u2013 like a long, face-to-face conversation or concentrating deeply on this sweet life. And the likelihood of genuine transmission to the digital generation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A younger friend recently told me about going out to dinner with her mom and sisters and how they used to talk and talk. Now all the sisters sit and text. When the mom complains, they text each other complaining about their mom\u2019s complaints!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a couple recent pieces from the NYTimes on this theme:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGrowing up Digital: Wired for Distraction\u201d<\/a> and \u201cWhen the Mind Wanders, Happiness also Strays.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Are you concerned about this?<\/span><\/p>\n Tongue in cheek on the picture. I suppose genuine interaction is possible through texting but I wonder if we really need all of these ways to talk about who is saying what to whom, our exact location on the planet at every given time, the color of the carpet in the airport, etc.\u00a0 I\u2019m not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
Tongue in cheek on the picture. I suppose genuine interaction is possible through texting but I wonder if we really need all of these ways to talk about who is saying what to whom, our exact location on the planet at every given time, the color of the carpet in the airport, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n