The digital erruption and psychological problems

Only the fact that the Sims, 2nd Life and World of Warcraft addicts are adopted by the same rehabilitation centers as drugsaddicts in Argentine and the BBC made a showprogram about the effect on children by taking away the TV and the Computer for one day, worries me (and a lot more people) about the effect of the digital era on the people.

Well at first it are of course the parents and close friends who can spot grave addiction to the digital media. But the best warning would be if you, yourself could life with the fact that we are not that dependend at all of technology (Are we?). Image a powershutdown for one day or a week. It caused loads of trouble in America. People robbed the stores and streets were unsafe. Imagine living in an orthodix camp with no electricity. No telephones, no computers, no electric light, no laptops, no printers, no recorded music, no movies. What would realy happen? Would we go mad? Would we return to our core basic human needs?

I don’t know, only by observing the human being in occasions where it did happen gives us some clues to the answers.

Psychological problems as we know them, or even more how Americans and Canadians know them, are an evolution of technical development. You wouldn’t find them in the poor African countries, because their still concerned about food and safety. That means they can not worry about other problems yet, unless they develop.

Giving lectures in future in college about the dangers of the media will give them more awareness of what is hapening. Social awarens classes so to say. Would be a plausible solution to be considered by the gouvernment. However someone who studies the effects should make a study program that is effective to the pupils.

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