14 reasons to give up modern technology

1. Gadgets are time-consuming

We spend a lot of time at the computer. And when it is not at hand, go to the smartphones. Sticky or video games. We view news videos from seals, laykaem photos of friends and participate in online discussions useless.

But if you give up all the gadgets at least for a while, then marvel at how this same time you will have. It can be used with much judgment. Do sports, for example. Make repairs. To stay with relatives. Sleep finally!

2. Screens visually impaired

Let us not be like the strange guys in the tin foil hat who cry that the technique we irradiates radiation. No need to be a rocket scientist to understand that the computer and the uranium core - a little bit different things. However, certain injury gadgets still applied, especially if you use them incorrectly.

Long look at the screen could damage your eyesight. Massachusetts General Hospital ophthalmologist ophthalmology and otolaryngology Matthew Gardiner callsElectronic screen alert: Avoid this vision risk Two main reasons for this.

Firstly, considering the elements of the interface, we overtax your eyes. Second, the computer we literally forget to blink. Blinking frequency decreases from 15 to 5 times per minute, causing appears dry eyes. Therefore, in order to preserve vision, follow simple rules. And spend less time at the monitor.

3. You can ruin your posture

In addition to vision, the computer can harm and even posture. A person does not tend to hold still for a long time. Therefore, sitting at the computer correctly. Or do not use it at all, why waste time on trifles.

And smartphones are harmful to neckUsing them, we constantly tilts his head to look at the screen. An American doctor, chiropractor Dean Fishman even offeredText Neck Syndrome - Systematic Review a special name - "text neck syndrome" - for a disease that develops among fans to correspond on a smartphone, head bent.

4. Gadgets harm sleep

Many people darkness linger for computers. And, lying in bed, still sticks to the smartphone, reading posts on social networks or in Instagram Like fotochki at bedtime. Bring myself to postpone the gadget and finally fall asleep, it is sometimes very hard.

Computers, smart phones, and in general all devices with bright screens have a negative impact on sleep quality. This has been confirmed by studiesResearch progress about the effect and prevention of blue light on eyes.

The light from the display reducing the production of melatoninImpact of Self-Luminous Tablet Displays on Evening Melatonin Levels, Disrupting the natural biorhythms.

Manufacturers of digital devices aware of the problem: they provide the gadgets function "Night Mode", which automatically changes color temperature screens. But this is only a half measure. The only reliable way to improve sleep remains the rejection of televisions, computers, tablets and smartphones in a couple of hours prior to bed.

5. Social networks envy and depression

In social networks, great. All people are happy and beautiful. Look at photos of those to whom you are subscribed to Instagram or Facebook: fitonyashi show perfect figure, hardcore Travelers grab the tail of dolphin and conquer Everest, the rich young men posing next to his Lamborghini. One is forced to think about what you're doing with your life that something is wrong.

Psychologists have conducted a study of the University of HoustonSeeing Everyone Else's Highlight Reels: How Facebook Usage is Linked to Depressive Symptoms and we have established a link between depression and the use of Facebook. They found that people who spend a lot of time in social networks, and comparing themselves with their friends, become depressed and unhappy.

Another studyMobile phone use and stress, sleep disturbances, and symptoms of depression among young adults - a prospective cohort study, This time from the University of Gothenburg researchers, confirms that abuse of smartphones in general, increases the risk of depression. Their Harvard colleagues of the same opinionWandering mind not a happy mind.

So enough to learn other people's photos: live your life and drive in others.

6. Technology requires constant investments

You have collected a powerful gaming computer. It took place a couple of years, and he no longer pulls fresh AAA-games at high graphics settings. You bought a smartphone flagship, spending a lot of money, but after some time, manufacturers happily report that made a new, even better. A release updates for older devices will not. Only buy all the newest.

Computers become obsolete fairly quickly, and even mobile gadgets even faster. Applications are beginning to slow, smooth interface disappears, and can not help think about it, where it did all the gigabytes of memory and processor gigahertz. And in some very advanced cases manufacturers may deliberately inhibit smartphoneTo force you to upgrade to the new model. And they have the audacity to claim that this is for your own good.

Smartwatch will become obsolete in a few years and, quite possibly, will no longer be compatible with the new smartphone. A simple mechanical model You may bequeath to their children.

Stop chasing the technical innovations - and save a lot of money. They can be consumed more usefully: books, food, clothes, travel.

7. Computers and smart phones are short-lived

Backup and cloud - is, of course, very convenient. But even the most advanced electronic means of storing and sharing does not give an absolute guarantee of preservation of data.

Members over the years poured fotochki, videos, and music on MySpace, and he suddenly losesMySpace lost 12 years of music and photos, leaving a sizable gap in social network history them. Someone was holding a photo archive for several years to Flickr, but he suddenly decided to clean upFlickr will soon start deleting photos - and massive chunks of internet historyAnd images end.

Problems with the Internet? Everything you do not have access to your data somewhere in the bowels of Google storage. Yes, even a conventional hard drive that you have on hand, can "fall down" and stopped reading. And not the fact that you restore the contents.

I lie on the mezzanine The Beatles vinyl records, inherited more from his grandfather. And they played. Still.

Whatever you say, and "grandfather" analog media reliably. If you switch off the light, you will not lose diary entries made in the ordinary notebook. Books made of paper is always close at hand: they do not need to charge, unlike e-reader or tablet. And they do not need access to the Internet. A photograph taken more when your great-grandmother, can be transmitted from generation to generation. Is this your iPhone boast?

8. Technology stimulate laziness and procrastination

Digital entertainment differ accessibility. You can hardly at any time of the day to drop everything and go play water polo or focus on creating flower arrangements. But to turn the working documents and run your favorite game or grab your smartphone and get stuck in a chat room with your friends very easily.

And in order to keep himself from such procrastination will need considerable willpower, which not everyone has.

9. Smart devices impair memory

Modern technologies are doing with our memories rather strange things. A lot of different services and applications designed to help us all to remember. Task Manager allows you to not keep order in the mind, and to record and assign them to date.

Social networks are reminded when our friends birthdays. Maps and Google search will always help to find the correct address, even if it is weathered from the memory. All this is very convenient, but not very good for the brain.

The habit of constantly google weakens human memory.

There is no need to strain and becomes something to remember, if reliable information to trust digital assistants. Thus, according to a studyThe relation between smartphone use and everyday inattention American Psychological Association, people actively using smartphones, become scattered and less attentive.

10. Smartphones can cause an accident

According toMore people have died from selfies than shark attacks this year publication Mashable, during attempts to make selfie kills more people than from shark attacks. Sounds, of course, fun (if you like black humor), but every joke has some truth.

Carried away by viewing your smartphone, you can easily get under the car to fall off a cliff, or even become a victim of a bear. And if you are using gadgets while driving, endangering not only themselves but also the people around... Here it is no censorship of words remains.

11. Notifications distracting

Once you finally focus on some important things, like gadgets you decide on something to inform. You check unread notifications, return to work and understand that completely forgotten, is something so intensely speculated a few minutes ago.

Researchers at UC Irvine have discoveredThe Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed ​​and StressThat full recovery concentration after interruption must already 23 minutes and 15 seconds.

Such is the price of a momentary distraction.

In addition, the notification of mobile devices with our mind doing a more unusual jokes. Indiana University psychologists have discovered a new phenomenonPhantom Pocket Vibration Syndrome, Which is called "phantom vibration syndrome." Sometimes you think that your phone vibrate, you check it - but no notification no. Often this happens when you go to sleep, that is not very helpful for sleep.

Disconnect notification whenever you can and toss the habit all the time to check what is new on the web.

12. The Internet can lead to social isolation

Ironically, social networks, designed to help us find your friends, and talk, often lead to problems in this area. People accustomed to engage in dialogue only on the screen of the smartphone or computer begin to be ashamed of Me, in reality, are lost during the awkward conversations and become less sensitive to the other person.

However, no one has canceled the live communication. And studiesCan you connect with me now? How the presence of mobile communication technology influences face-to-face conversation quality show that attention to mobile devices during a conversation makes people think badly of you. For this social phenomenon is even a special term is found - fabbing. Therefore, turn off all the gadgets and hide them before they come into contact with other people.

13. Technology violate your privacy

Handset manufacturers, software developers, creators of web services is collected about you a lot of information, then to cram advertising. Sometimes devices send telemetry network without permission, limiting warning in the license agreement, which is still nobody reads. Sometimes we throw out your data in social networks, which are the creators of this happy enjoyed.

And the saddest thing is that your data in the public domain can be used not only advertisers, complying with at least some decency rules, but network fraudsters. They extort money from users by pretending to be someone familiar, hack email, trying to steal your account iCloud and do millions of other abominations.

So the smaller you are the light in the web, the better.

14. Devices bind you to power

The vast majority of mobile devices currently consume battery power with a wild speed. And the more power in your flagship smartphone, the less it will stretch without charge. Therefore we are looking for an outlet at least once a day.

A wireless headsets - all the darkness. Load up pauerbank to charge the case, to charge the "ears".

To curb its dependence on smartphones and computers, you moderate their appetites for electricity. Stop sweating, can I charge the gadget at work or at the university, will no longer rush in search of a suitable outlet or cable. You do not have to carry a pauerbank and monitor the level of charge. Turning off the light will cease to look disaster. And the planet will bring benefit.

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And finally the main reason. All the rest - it is, is nonsense. Using the Internet and new gadgets, you are unknowingly helping the development of neural networks. AI already beaten us in chess and Dota 2. Can you imagine what would happen if he suddenly decides to enslave humanity? The joke, of course. But maybe a minute to think it's worth to take.