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But it's not just Facebook that is establishing this master database of the human race. As Clay Shirky notes, popular21 geo-location services such as foursquare, Facebook places, Google Latitude, Plancast and the Hotlist, which enable us to "effectively see through walls" and know the exact location of all our friends, are making society more "legible," thus allowing all of us to be read, in good Inspection-House fashion, "like a book."22 No wonder, then, that Katie Rolphe, a New York University colleague of Shirky, has observed that "Facebook is the novel we are all writing."23 Remember to take a few minutes of rest after every 30 minutes of staring at your tablets, mobile phones, or computers for long periods. Stringham, James; Stringham, Nicole; O’Brien, Kevin (2017). "Macular Carotenoid Supplementation Improves Visual Performance, Sleep Quality, and Adverse Physical Symptoms in Those with High Screen Time Exposure". Foods. 6 (7): 47. doi: 10.3390/foods6070047. ISSN 2304-8158. PMC 5532554. PMID 28661438.
Twenge, Campbell, Aboujaoude, Strauss and Franzen are all correct about this endless loop of great exhibitionism—an attention economy that, not uncoincidentally, combines a libertarian insistence on unrestrained individual freedom with the cult of the social. It's a public exhibition of self-love displayed in an online looking glass that New Atlantis senior editor Christine Rosen identifies as the "new narcissism"32 and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat calls a "desperate adolescent narcissism."33 Everything—from communications, commerce and culture to gaming, government and gambling—is going social. As David Brooks, Douthat's colleague at The Times, adds, "achievement is redefined as the ability to attract attention."34 All we, as individuals, want to do on the network, it seems, is share our reputations, our travel itineraries, our war plans, our professional credentials, our illnesses, our confessions, photographs of our latest meal, our sexual habits of course, even our exact whereabouts with our thousands of online friends. Network society has become a transparent love-in, an orgy of oversharing, an endless digital Summer of Love. Experts estimate that around 50 - 80 percent of people experience headaches, nausea, or migraines due to prolonged staring at their computer screens. So, it would probably give you comfort to know that you’re not the only person who needs relief from digital vertigo . Symptoms of Digital Vertigo Another study in Malaysia was conducted on 795 university students aged between 18 and 25. The students experienced headaches along with eyestrain, with 89.9% of the students surveyed feeling any type of symptom of CVS. [17] See also [ edit ]Dry eyes because of CVS can also be treated using moisture chamber glasses or humidifier machines. Office spaces with artificially dry air can worsen CVS syndromes, in which case, a desktop or a room humidifier can help the eyes keep a healthy moisture level. Unlike most commentators, Andrew Keen observes the internet as if from a distance. Digital Vertigo may be one of the few books on the subject that, twenty years from now, will be seen to have got it right. Neither blinkered advocate nor hardened cynic, he identifies the good and the bad with a rare human and historical perspective. ” — Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP
Mainstone, J. C.; Bruce, A. S.; Golding, T. R. (June 1996). "Tear meniscus measurement in the diagnosis of dry eye". Current Eye Research. 15 (6): 653–661. doi: 10.3109/02713689609008906. ISSN 0271-3683. PMID 8670769.According to the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, computer vision syndrome affects about 90% of the people who spend three hours or more a day at a computer. [16] [ unreliable medical source?] In 1787, at the dawn of the mass industrial age, Jeremy Bentham designed what he called a "simple idea in architecture" to improve the management of prisons, hospitals, schools and factories. Bentham's idea was, as the architectural historian Robin Evans noted, a "vividly imaginative" synthesis of architectural form with social purpose.2 Bentham, who amassed great personal wealth as a result of his social vision,3 wanted to change the world through this new architecture. Asthenopic (eye strain) symptoms in the eye are responsible for much of the severity in CVS. Proper rest to the eye and its muscles is recommended to relieve the associated eye strain. Observations from persons experiencing chronic eye strain have shown that most people who claim to be getting enough sleep are actually not. This, unaware to them, causes the eye strain to build up over a period of time, when if they had obtained seven to eight hours of uninterrupted sleep, their eye muscles would have recovered during the sleep and the strain would not have built up [ citation needed].
a b Singh, Sumeer; McGuinness, Myra B.; Anderson, Andrew J.; Downie, Laura E. (October 2022). "Interventions for the Management of Computer Vision Syndrome". Ophthalmology. 129 (10): 1192–1215. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2022.05.009. PMID 35597519. S2CID 248933081.
You'll remember that @quixotic once said that his goal was to provide society with a lens to who are we and who should we be, as individuals and as members of society. And that, I'm afraid, is all too literally what new networks like SocialEyes are doing. The emergence of this socialized economy, with its powerful lens directed upon society and its tens of billions of dollars of investment appears now, for better or worse, unstoppable. The simple architecture of the digital Inspection-House is now all around us. Has Nineteen Eighty-four finally arrived on all of our screens?
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