An interesting article that goes some way into explaining why people don't change even when faced with overwhelming evidence they're heading at full speed towards an unstable if not deadly future.
An interesting article that goes some way into explaining why people don’t change even when faced with overwhelming evidence they’re heading at full speed towards an unstable if not deadly future.
Junk food may be addictive in the same way as heroin or cocaine. Laboratory rats will endure painful electric shocks to satisfy their craving for high-calorie snacks.
Junk food may be addictive in the same way as heroin or cocaine. Laboratory rats will endure painful electric shocks to satisfy their craving for high-calorie snacks.
Methadone for swiping and scrolling.
Thought-provoking point of view on the reverse chronological view common to many platforms.
Cory Doctorow on our never ending cycle of adaptation to new methods of persuasion.
We've been inundated with articles about the dangers of phone addiction. This one takes it a step further by linking it to stress hormone levels. Not a surprise.
Talk about addiction. This morning, while out cycling in the countryside, I passed a woman completely absorbed by her phone screen while riding a horse.
Roughly 45 minutes into an online search for a vegetable peeler, I looked away from my screen to realize the kitchen had grown dark and the day turned to night. I thought to myself, this is a problem.
This feels exceedingly familiar.
We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.
A flourishing economy mostly depends on an unsatisfied population and a declining environment.
They're deliberately creating TV content as a background to people's phone addiction now.
It’s O.K. to look at your phone all the time, the show seems to say, because Emily does it, too. The episodic plots are too thin to ever be confusing; when you glance back up at the television, chances are that you’ll find tracking shots of the Seine or cobblestoned alleyways, lovely but meaningless.
