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ReplyDeleteWebMD.com, Susan Davis
ReplyDeletehttp://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/addicted-your-smartphone-what-to-do
"By design," he says, "it's an environment of almost constant interruptions and distractions. The smartphone, more than any other gadget, steals from us the opportunity to maintain our attention, to engage in contemplation and reflection, or even to be alone with our thoughts."
Carr, who writes extensively in The Shallows about the way that computer technology in general may be diminishing our ability to concentrate and think deeply, does not have a smartphone.
nytimes.com, Teddy Wayne
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/fashion/a-hardy-group-holds-out-on-smartphones.html?pagewanted=all
According to a Pew report published last year, 35 percent of Americans owned a smartphone as of May 2011. As might be expected, ownership is higher among the young, the wealthy and the nonrural. Fifty-eight percent of 25-to-34-year-olds (my own demographic) own smartphones. And in certain social strata, to not own one is the mark of an outsider.
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Web surfing rewires people to be more adept at perfunctory multitasking, but diminishes the ability to sustain focus and think interpretatively.
Smartphones are especially pernicious because they “increase the ease of access to the Internet far beyond anything we’ve had with laptops,”
questions:
ReplyDelete1. Who is on the $50.00 dollar bill?
answer: Ulysses S. Grant
2. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
answer: because it needs air in order to set.
Sutter, John D. "How Smartphones Make Us Superhuman - CNN.com." CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 01 Nov. 2012. .
ReplyDeleteNearly 6 billion phones
Regardless of the effects, adoption of mobile tech seems to be going only one direction: up. There were nearly 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide in 2011, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a branch of the United Nations. There are 7 billion people in the world. Some have multiple mobile contracts, but technology is clearly widespread. And getting smarter.
Saylor, the author and CEO, estimates 5 billion people will have smartphones in the next five years, giving those people access to the mobile Internet and apps. The United States already reached a tipping point this year: The majority of American phone owners now have smartphones.
These phones, such as those running the Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems, offer "more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon," Nancy Gibbs writes for Time.
"In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water," she writes. "For millions, this is the first phone they've ever had."
Gibbs and other writers cite the astounding speed with which mobile phones have come to dominate our lives in the decades since Martin Cooper, from Motorola, placed the first public cellular telephone call on a brick-size phone in 1973. (He called a competitor at Bell Labs, in case you're curious.)
It took years for mobile-networking technology to develop and for cellular towers to go up. After mobile calls became more commonplace in a few developed countries, manufacturers added keyboards and larger screens, clearing the way for the SMS and mobile e-mail revolutions.
By the 2000s, a host of sensors -- from GPS, which enables mobile mapping, to accelerometers, which helps the phone know if it's being tilted -- were being squeezed into the gadgets. The mother of all smartphones, the Apple iPhone, debuted in 2007 with all these accouterments.
By then, phones had become the warehouse for technological innovation -- the Swiss Army knives of modern living, as many authors have argued. If you include tablets and e-readers in the mix, mobile devices have come to rival desktop computers and laptops for their usefulness in life and business.
"The reason why mobile technology is uniquely interesting to the world right now is because it represents the fifth wave of computing," Saylor said, with smartphones following Internet-enabled computing, desktops, minicomputers and early computer mainframes on the timeline. "And technology really is about what happens to the entire civilization of some several billion people or more when there is useful software running on the person and in the hand of everybody, every minute of the day."
Smartphone superpowers
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of potential superpowers these always-on mobile gadgets could give us.
One of the more futuristic, as outlined by Google this year, is a sort of digital X-ray, or "Terminator" vision. Using augmented-reality technology, that company and others hope to superimpose a layer of digital information on top of the real world. A person wearing Google's prototype of high-tech glasses, for example, might see data about people they encounter or about deals offered inside restaurants they pass.
Other efforts aim to empower people literally to open doors or pay for coffee with a tap of their phone, and to identify themselves using NFC chips that are built into newer smartphones.
Meanwhile, schools in rural parts of Africa that never had textbooks are incorporating smartphones as an information source with the help of Paul Kim, chief technology officer at Stanford University. "I know they are not only using the technology," Kim said, "but they are getting smarter and smarter every day."
And researchers, including George Whitesides at Harvard University, are trying to use mobile phones to bring medical care to remote corners of the world where people otherwise would have to walk for a day or more to see a doctor or nurse. Whitesides' group has been working on a paper chip that could be touched with a drop of blood and then photographed and text messaged to a clinic that could analyze it and offer a diagnosis.
Suddenly, doctors have the superhuman ability to see patients far afield.
New implementations for smartphones don't always work, of course, Stanford's Kim said.
But over time, there's hope smartphones will be a radical, democratizing force -- particularly as they become more affordable for everyone.
"The Agricultural Revolution took thousands of years to run its course. The Industrial Revolution required a few centuries. The Information Revolution, propelled by mobile technology will likely reshape our world on the order of decades," Saylor writes. "But despite the turbulence ahead, we live at one of the greatest times in history. Software will suffuse the planet, filling in every niche, and exciting opportunities will lie everywhere."
Q: What is the square root of 289?
ReplyDeleteA: 17
Q: Who lead the continental army?
A: George Washington
Q: What are the three basic layers of the Earth?
A: Crust, Mantle, Core
Q: What instrument measures pressure?
A: A barometer
In 2010 in the United States, more than 3,000 people died in crashes that involved distracted driving, which includes sending texts and using the phone, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. And more than one in 10 fatal crashes involving people younger than 20 were reported to be related to distracted driving.
ReplyDeleteAnd one more, from Robert Thompson: "One of the most disturbing things about cellphones, is that now people can't even sit at a stoplight without hitting the feeder bar that is their phone. In social situations, instead of striking up a conversation with a stranger, people now just delve into their phones. You cannot tell me that is a good thing."
Sutter, John D. "On Second Thought: Maybe Smartphones Make Us 'SuperStupid'? - CNN.com." CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 08 Nov. 2012. .