The OU has stimulated my mind suitably over the last seven months to oblige a subscription to the New Scientist.
I was picking it up every other week for the Web Tech and other 'e-' related topics. These now feature regularly. My wife has ten years in medical market research, though not a Scientist, she will often have an opinion on anything that touches her world of work. It is better read that the weekend colour supplement. In fact, I've ditched the Guardian once a week for the New Scientist once a week with all other stories and news prompted by a sentence on TV, a couple of sentences on the Radio and a paragraph or two online.
Beware the Irresistible Internet
Is it addictive?
Expecting or wishing to look at numerous e-learning style products for H808 I found I had spent 3 hours today doing this with Dropbox and Facebook. I wish I hadn't. I haven't even started to make Facebook sing, so would prefer to exit in tact. And I suspect that Dropbox, like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter is just a neat trap and that within six months we will be enrolled into a myriad of appealing, complementary services that we'll be paying for by subscription.
- technology-dependence clinic (Richard Graham)
- young men stuck in multiplayer online gaming environments
- Women and adolescent girls using instant messaging platforms and social media compulsively
- obsession with screen-based media (Ofcom)
- Blackberry-addicted white-collar workers
Hear say or fact? Not evidence and the citations are sparse. But of interest.
- Is there such a thing as an OU obsessive?
- A blogging obsessive (certainly).
- If you have an obsessive nature.
'Now, the potent combination of omnipresent technologies and our addictive nature means more casualties look inevitable.' Paul Marks. Senior Technology Correspondent
REFERENCE
Marks, P. (2010) New Scientist. Volume 207. No. 2777. pp24-25.