Wednesday, August 13th, 2003
More Intercrack
CNN posts an article on internet addiction. This is the second of these I've seen recently; the first I mentioned here. Over at the Seattle Times Too much technology diminishes work relationships, or, I assume, any other types of relationships as well. Some highlights of the article that hit home with me: In Sanders' case, the syndrome meant restlessness at night and never seeming to be emotionally present at home. He began to have relationship difficulties at work because he used e-mail, at one point, to communicate everything to his employees, be it good or bad. Shenk said he had come to rely on technology to the extent that he wasn't placing enough confidence in his own faculties. Life was a series of trade-offs and he had chosen technology without understanding the implications on other areas of his life. After one speech in particular, he received e-mail reports about small groups of engineers within a company that had become completely electronic... "They were the worst people to work with... These were very lonely, depressed, negative, anti-social, brilliant people."
Ha ha.