Topic: Study: Most Americans suffer from ‘Digital Amnesia’ - page 2. (Read 4940 times)

Yes.

It was funny at the beginning but now, the things that "texters" do are just stupid. Are people becoming blind idiots because of smartphones?

Sculpture moved after texters kept bumping into it








Walking while texting can be dangerous — a fact that was recently reconfirmed in England.

A 20-foot-high sculpture of two clasped hands that formed an archway over a path on the grounds of the Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire had to be relocated because walkers kept bumping into it (despite the 6 feet, 4 inches of clearance beneath the center of it), the BBC reports.

In a Facebook post last week that showed "The Kiss" being moved by crane, artist Sophie Ryder wrote the galvanized steel wire sculpture was moved "because people were walking through texting and said they bumped their heads! Oh well!!"

A cathedral official didn't specify texting as the issue, but said "during the hours of darkness" there were some incidents. The sculpture was installed earlier this month as part of an exhibit on the cathedral lawn, reports the Telegraph; the show runs through July 3.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/22/sculpture-moved-after-texters-kept-bumping-into/80749014/

yes , you are right whole world are suffering from this disease... authorities must do something..

The Smartphone Menace



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One of the educators at the table added that the problem is not limited to the content accessed through the phones, but to the way using these devices is radically distorting the way kids communicate with each other, or fail to. Even if the kids only accessed benign content, and did not use social media to attack each other, they nevertheless spend enormous amounts of time on their smartphones, ignoring everyone around them. Some of them have trouble sustaining an actual conversation for more than a few minutes. All of them are losing the habits of common courtesy that has since forever been how human beings in social situations treat each other.

Listening to this, I thought about the time we had a dinner party at which the youngest guest at the table, a woman of about 24, pulled out her smartphone and began checking her mail. I thought perhaps she was expecting an urgent message; why else would someone drop out of the conversation and turn to her iPhone at the dinner table. But no, that’s exactly what she was doing. She sat in her seat ignoring everyone else at the table for a good 10 minutes, until, it seemed, the conversation topic turned to something that interested her. It was appallingly rude. But that’s how kids are today.



http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-smartphone-menace/

Smart pohne will make you be more stupid. Well not so but let say to be more depended. So without your smart phone you can't immagine one hour of your life, not to say more..you have everything on your phone, gallery,memories,your agenda,messages,contacts,app what to wear, wel everything...so you can not live without apps

You are welcome. I'll try to keep this thread up with related news on this subject, instead of creating new ones.

Let's see if I'll be suffering the same disease in the future as I bought my first smartphone (ever) a month ago.

 

This is old news indeed, but I'm glad someone bumped the thread--I can totally relate to this!!  Things have definitely changed since I was in college with physical textbooks and having to graph things manually, with a ruler and pencil.  Crazy, and thank you OP for posting this.

Smart phones, tablets, are very helpful in organizing life activities and in searching useful information. But we must slow on, not to be addict on technology, we must know how to organize life without it

perfect. i wonder what is the problem i have.. i found the answer .. i suffer from this illness

This is basically forgetting partial or all of the information that you depend on, stored on digital devices. As technology advances, newer devices come into use, experience of older ones dwindle away, so we are forever updating, reorganizing, using the latest tech to help us remember our personal info and other info which we use daily for business, work and pleasure.

We depends to much on technology.
What if because of some computer or Internet bug all our digital data and information disappear?
We should train ourselves not to depend to much on computers but also exercise our brain and remember things like we used to do when there were no computers and the Internet.

Also, fell from trees and broke bones and heads.

every period of history has some advantages and disadvantages..in past less quality of life,no electricity, young people dying, medicine on low level, and now we have digital era where computer,cell phone became necessary in your life

In past millions of people died by diseases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

imagine one day without computer, cell phone, or tablet...It would be disaster and armagedon for a lot of people. You don't know numbers of your friends,addresses,not to mention if you should to collect few numbers in your head without calculator..the digital era has it benefits but a lot of disadvantages..in past children played outside the house, were climbing to trees go to parks..and now sitting all day with games on cell phones or hanging up on facebook...

Emergency room visits from distracted walking skyrocket


An estimated ten percent of pedestrian injuries that land people in emergency rooms are due to distracted walking, a recent study found. That's thousands of people injured -- sometimes killed.

In San Diego, investigators believe Joshua Burwell may have been trying to take a picture of the sunset when he took a fatal fall some 40 feet off Sunset Cliffs.

"He wasn't watching where he was walking and looking more down at the device," said San Diego Lifeguard Sgt. Bill Bender.

It's a tragic example of a growing problem -- people distracted by their phones or other devices. One mall security camera captured a woman focused on her phone walk straight into a fountain.

Another video shows a man talking on his phone walk right off the train platform.

In a recent study, 78 percent of Americans said distracted walking is a serious issue.

Another study found people using their phone while walking veered off course 61 percent of the time, and overshot their target 13 percent more than when they were not distracted by their device.

While the number of emergency room visits for distracted walking injuries doubled between 2005 and 2010 to more than 1,500, Dr. Claudette Lajam, an orthopedic surgeon, believes the problem is actually much bigger.

"A lot of people don't admit that they do it," said Dr. Lajam. "It's getting worse as we have more and more features on these devices that we carry around with us that can distract us."

Researchers at Ohio State found millennials ages 21 to 25 are the most likely to be injured. And the National Safety Council says nearly 80 percent of the injuries stem from falls, estimating more than half occur at home.

For the first time, the National Safety Council is including distracted walking as a category in its annual report on unintentional deaths and injuries.

While it sounds like common sense, looking up while walking and checking both ways before crossing the streets really goes a long way to keeping you safe.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangers-distracted-walking-research-national-safety-council/

This is why smartphones should be called stu*idphones.

Of course it is global. I kept the title of the original title as is.

Having access to the Internet feels as stable as having access to electricity or running water, well yes it is true, you can find so many thing on the internet, every single thing you want to know you can find it but you have to know how to luck. Also i use my android phone and i store documents that i might need while i am outside so i don't have to get back home and send some file to someone. I remember many numbers but they are mostly those that i need all the time. This is not just the case with American people, this is globally.