--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@> wrote: > > > > Speaking of video gaming, I just learned of international > > competitions in a game called Star Craft 2. Lots of money > > to be made if you win. The best players on the planet are > > young Koreans, who actually spend every waking moment > > perfecting their strategy and their hand eye coordination. > > Apparently, Americans have gone to Korea to train with them > > and prepare for a big international playoff in February in > > Korea. > > > > Technology is changing society and our brains. Work places > > can no longer track the sites visited and amount of time spent > > when employees are on the job. With IPhones, you don't need > > to use the company computer. I see it at my job with a > > colleague addicted to her IPhone and texting her children - > > about half her day is spent texting (not an exaggeration) > > and her boss has no clue. Her college age children are > > connected to her all day long!! Businesses lose as employees > > really only work part-time, and our brains are being rewired > > as we get ultra social with many many people non-stop. Near > > constant multi-tasking with little real in depth thinking. > > Or our kids narrow their focus to video games for hours on > > end. Some are wistful - I spoke with a 7th grader the other > > day and he said he wished he lived back in the days before > > everyone had IPhones, and email. He has never known life > > without it all. He said it all overwhelms him with > > information and the expectation to be on top of things. > > And even when his family goes to the beach they are all > > constantly looking at their phones. It is not going away. > > This touches on what I was rapping about earlier, whether > the Internet mindset is antithetical to spiritual life. I > think a lot of the rudeness and cluelessness we see on the > Internet is due to the fact that people lost in these > everpresent cyberworlds have lost touch with what it's > like to function in the real world. When people whose > lives revolve around how many Facebook Friends they have > or how many people follow them on Twitter hit a so-called > spiritual forum, well duh...they're going to act there > just like they act on the other social media. > > http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e04-you-have-0-friends >
Saw that episode. Love it!
