A Bicycle for Your Mind
Have you traveled on public transportation lately? 90% of the people on it are glued to their smart phones. While driving in this morning, I caught roughly 10 people playing with their smart phones while in traffic. NPR just had a package on about a guy who had his own startup for technology innovation, then Google bought his company, so he went from being his own boss to working for the "man". He lasted about a year. I didn't catch the guy's name, but he had studied in college to use technology to better your life, not hinder or hijack it. He likened it to a bicycle for your mind. And then, working for Google and saw first hand how corporations are creating the new addiction - it's not alcohol or pot, or gambling - it is being tethered to your smart phone or tablet. People are addicted to check the latest tweet, or how many likes you got on facebook or worse, all those targeted ads you are being served up by Amazon, or Google because you did a search on ...