Too Many Screens

[UCyborg]

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You may have looked perplexed if, 20 years ago, someone would have told you that we'd spend most of our days glued to glowing screens, that we'd blur the lines between work and home, that our connectedness would disconnect us from what matters.

It would have sounded dystopian. Yet we agreed to it. Not all at once, but gradually. One supposed improvement at a time.

A screen on your wall.
A screen at your desk.
A screen in your pocket.
A screen on your lap.
A screen in your hand.
A screen on your wrist.

“Every night in America is like a competition to see how many screens we can get between our face and the wall," Ronny Chieng observed in his recent Netflix comedy special. While we may have won this competition, we've lost something important.

If our innovations get in the way of a life worth living, are they actually degenerations? What happens when the colors on our screens are more vivid but our lives are increasingly grayscale? When we upgrade our tech but downgrade everything meaningful? When the ceaseless glow brightens but our joy and purpose dim?

At what point do we turn it off?

Source: https://www.theminimalists.com/screens/

Relatable, isn't it?

Edited May 13, 2021 by UCyborg

[Tripredacus]

If you told me 20 years ago that in 2021 I'd have a television in almost every room, I wouldn't believe you. At least I don't have a computer in every room. :p

[UCyborg]

Well I guess most people don't buy TV to force themselves to watch programs they don't like for 8+ hours a day, almost every day.

I'm on leave this week and it feels like I've escaped from hell. No eye burning, no headaches, no stupid customers on the phone, no countless emails from said stupid customers to dig through and finally no dealing with that stupid software in any way, shape or form and its countless bugs.