TOYS OR TOOLS?

Occasionally, one reads in the national press, interesting items regarding the way the public goes about its day to day routine. Increasingly, with many folk, they can't proceed more than a few minutes at a time without referring to their mobile/smart phone. There is now a high proportion of many so-called advanced societies who are totally reliant upon these silly toys. It could be challenged that they are rarely used for gaining intelligence, which is available, in many cases, where confirmation is to hand on line. Unfortunately, the function is generally for passing the time of day, a pointless act to overcome the owner's boredom; in addition, they interrupt normal conversation.

Professor Paul Dolan, a psychologist at the London School of Economics, is convinced that, apart from getting in the way of normal social intercourse, they are having an effect on the human psyche. The toy has overtaken the normal human process. Have I any messages? Have you seen this 'round-robin? It's never ending. Very little of this has much to do with ones' daily routine. Jeffrey Janata at the University Hospitals in Cleveland's faculty of behavioural medicine, has found that mobile owners can imagine that their phone is ringing when it is in 'off mode'. Furthermore, they can get the same sensation when they have not got their phone with them. It is also suggested, from research, that too many mobile calls in the evening can disturb the night's sleep.


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