Summary Of Are We Addicted To Technology By Zoe Kleinman

The paper “Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price” by Matt Richtel discussed how internet, phones calls and other incoming information impact on people’s life. Researchers say it can be addictive. Matt Richtel states, “Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave” (225). Basically, Matt Richtel is saying using phones, e-mails and other incoming information can affect the behavior of people and their thought process. Some people think multitasking makes them more productive, but scientists say otherwise. They believes multitaskers have more trouble focusing and selecting unnecessary information. Also, the author is insisting that children who use a lot of electronics

“On the other hand, our computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices can have us plugged in 24/7 and can often cause us to feel fatigue and exhaustion, which can take heavy tolls on our mood, health, and well-being. Since our technology never sleeps, it is important that we sync with the daily rhythms of nature and get adequate rest at proper times for optimal health,” was what health expert John Douillard, DC, said about it. This can help explain the children’s, and especially

Have you ever gotten lost in the Internet, swallowed by the constant updates on Twitter and Facebook for hours, when you only meant to be on for a few minutes? This is a constant battle in our society and technology changes and our use of it increases. It is becoming a bigger issue every day, and now it affects one of our basics psychological needs: sleep. Though I concede with Brooke Gladstone, author of “The Influencing Machines” that we can adapt to technology as it grows, I still insist that some issues that arise with technology are bigger than Gladstone portrays and we need to find solutions for some of the bigger problems that technology creates, especially when it disturbs a basic psychological need.

In the article, Attached to Technology and Paying a Price by Matt Ritchel, Kord Campbell’s family is an example of a family who is addicted to their devices. In the afternoon, the squad all completes in a video game showdown. They all sit around the TV, playing a video game on their Wii. Their youngest daughter has an ipod touch, and all she does is use it. She also has a laptop. Researchers worry that “digital stimulation like this creates attention problems for children with brains that are still developing.” When we start to use the device over and over, it becomes a routine. Not only is it a routine, it could be considered to be a habit to keep checking things over and over again. For example, somebody who relies on their emails for their job checks their email constantly. This could be up to 50-100 times a day, something clearly too much and to distracting from the outside

In Zoe Kleinman’s article she argues that people being tired is caused only by tech-related burnout. She used what Dr.Ramlakhan said but did not prove her statements with counterarguments. She poorly claims “Surely tiredness is a by-product of a busy modern life”. She is very ineffective in proving her statement. She is writing about many things stated by Dr.Nerina Ramlakhan, but does not have any actual scientific proof. She says that all of her patients have one thing in common, they all spend too much time using technology and not enough time away from it. One patient of hers even have a seizure from staying up all night playing video games on his computer. A man also got suspended from his job because he was up extremely early sending inappropriate

In Zoe Kleinman's health article, “Are We Addicted to Technology,” the author effortlessly argues that technology has become an addicting pattern in our everyday lives. Kleinman interviews Dr Ramlakhan who works at Nightingale Hospital. Dr Ramlakhan informs that tiredness is nothing more than just a by-product of a busy modern life.

Researchers say that the stimulation from the use of technology “provokes excitement” which causes dopamine levels to rise. Dopamine is a hormone in the brain that causes a feeling of wellness and happiness that can be addictive. These urges that we have interrupt family life and work, also they dullen creativity and deep thought. Research on what negative effects technology has on us was even done by Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse. The opposing side argues saying technology has “benefits,” but it’s the overuse and abuse of those benefits that also has a negative effect on our daily

In the article “Are We Addicted to Technology” by Zoe Kleinman makes us really think, are we addicted? It's hard to say considering the author uses claims poorly. Her first claim was “Surely tiredness is a by-product of a busy modern life - children, work, hobbies etc - rather than relaxing time spent watching Netflix in bed?” To most people this comes out to be sarcastic which makes readers not want to trust her. Then she states that a lot of her parents have a hard time sleeping at night when on electronics, even though she had just recommended “watching Netflix in bed” She also interviewed Dr. Ramlakhan which could of been a lot better because all she told us were stories about patents in front of screens and a boy having a seizure by playing

In the article Are We Addicted to Technology, author Ms. Kleinman claims that we may be into our devices to much and has taken too much of our everyday lives. For people who constantly go into their devices, “ then you got the classic pattern of someone who’s in a fatigue cycle” says Dr. Ramlakhan, meaning people are addicted to technology so much, they have extreme tiredness. Dr. Ramlakhan works at the privately run nightingale Hospital, and what she has noticed is, many of her patients are in front of the screen all the time, even when they try to sleep. Another quote by Dr. Ramlakhan is “they go to bed but can’t sleep, or fall asleep exhausted and wake up tired.” Even when people have to sleep, they don’t...but instead they just go into

In this passage the writer, Lydia Smith, argues that today's technology is taking over our lives. She says that we’re being tricked into thinking that cell phones and other devices help us to stay connected with one another. The reality is that by using these gadgets we are not experiencing face to face interactions; instead we are creating a social gap between us. She tries to connect with readers by pointing out misleading commercials and slogans. Smith also uses other facts to support her accusations that cell phone carriers have lied to consumers and benefited by providing false information. These advertisements have the consumers believe cellular companies have the consumers’ best interests at heart. She also uses the CIA's database to

In Zoe Kleinman’s BBC article “Are we addicted to technology”, she decently talks about the issue of how people being addicted to technology affects the children of this generation and causes adults to be exhausted or if all of it is just pseudo-science. Zoe Kleinman sneeringly states that tiredness is a by-product of a busy modern life and not watching TV all the time.Dr. Ramlakhan states, “The thing many of my patients have in common is the fact that they are in front of screens all the time”. Ms. Kleinman provides good evidence for her claim, but the evidence doesn’t have solid scientific reinforcement. Zoe Kleinman sarcastically says that maybe the patients just want to multitask. Dr. Ramlakhan says that people with certain personality

Technology has advanced to a point where instead of going and enjoying the outdoors most people would rather spend their time on their phones or playing on the computer. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 people live in a dystopian society and don't want to go outside because they are in constant need of something to entertain them. In the book if someone was interested in living life slow they were considered an outsider, ironically this is something more and more people are starting to believe. Technology has had positive effects on society with this positivity come some negativity such as, a increase in technology addiction, a decrease in time spent outside, and a decrease in quality sleep.

Matt Richtel says in Attached to Technology and Paying a Price that “… even after multitasking ends, fractured thinking and lack of focus persists. In other words, this is also your brain off computers.”, meaning that if someone constantly juggles between television, cellphone, computer, etc., they are hurting themselves, and the consequences are present even if you are not using your electronics. If someone is not able to focus, then that person would not be able to solve problems in real life that would require all the abilities he/she has. For example in the article Attached to Technology and Paying a Price, Matt Richtel says that “He forgets things like dinner plans, and he has trouble focusing on his family.”, when talking about Kord Campbell. Having trouble to focus and forget simple dinner plans or expending time with the people you love is unheard of, and it should have remained that way, his multitasking is taking from him great possible memories, and times. In addition, Adam Gazzaley, a neuroscientist at the University of California in San Francisco says: “We are exposing our brains to an environment and asking them to do things we weren’t necessarily evolved to do. We already know the consequences.” If our brains were not made to do what we are making them do, we shouldn’t keep doing it, we shouldn’t be deliberately damaging our brains just because we want to do several things at the same

Are we addicted to technology ? Thar is the question that Dr . Ramlakhn is trying to figure out . Technology can be a good and bad thing depends on your point of view . Dr. Ramlakhn says ¨ you've got the classic pattern of someone who's in a fatigue cycle,¨. By using a lot of technology gets you tired you start picking up bad sleeping habits .Dr.Ramlakhn asked many of her client what they think about technology , ¨ the thing many of my patients have in common is the fact that they are in front of a screen at all times . Even when they try to go to sleep at night .It has become so pervasive . ¨ , what she is staying in that sentence is that people are always have some type of technology . Dr.Ramlakhn says that people use it even when they

When we think of addictions we tend to think about drugs, alcohol, and other negative addictions, but my parents are addicted to technology. It all started in 2013 when they got their new samsung galaxies and ever since they became technology savvy and tend to show me new things they learned on their new devices. When my mother discovered how to screenshot she said “Hey Tre look what I did!” I replied “Ok.” Than she answered back with “I learned how to screenshot!” All I could do is burst into laughter and she sat there with a confused faced but yet still eagered she achieved such a difficult task. Their addiction to technology isn't a negative addiction yet,  I see it as a humorous addiction and not as serious.