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Broadband Life and Internet Anxiety Disorder
ChipGuy writes "Broadband brings the world right to your laptop or your handheld. With it comes information, and along with it comes desire to stay connected, and on top of everything. Om Malik calls it Internet Anxiety Disorder. 'The rush to catch-up and living a six megabits per second lifestyle, is what I think is going to be first major malaise of the 21st century - Internet anxiety disorder,' he says. Firefox developer, Blake Ross thinks that 'Internet hardwires developing brains with a click-happy sense of urgency that will not defer to reality. We are addicted to information and seek it even when we know it's not available.' Others have described this info-addiction as Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder."
My line went down yesterday. Longest 10 seconds of my life.
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Obsessive compulsive disorder for one. And masturbation! And anti-social disorder. And nerdiness!
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NADD? That was seriously the best that they could come up with??
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The rush to catch-up and living a six megabits per second lifestyle
and yet the first site they jump on is Slashdot, which usually has the effect of slowing the servers it mentions down to a crawl...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Thanks to the Internet, the majority are alienated from the mainstream.
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I've already read about this on Fark, Boing Boing, and Wired. Blogging on it's so last month and I've already IM'ed on it with my FOAF pals. If you want to know more-- oops gotta go-- my Treo's got an SMS!
Yeah, like I'm going to tell people that I have NADD.
I, for one, am against the usage of any acronym that is so close to nad. In fact, the pronounciation would be exactly the same.
That would like the Society for Trendy Undeserving People Instigating Debate
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
SHouldn't be Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder.
I reckon: Nerd Attention Deficiency Syndrome would be better.
NADS for short. Perhaps it's a load of bollocks...
The rush to catch-up and living a six megabits per second lifestyle...
I'm sorry but this line kills me... some computer dork trying to sound cool was like a car guy quoting Vin Diesel in Fast and Furious...
I live my life a quarter mile at a time, nothing else matters, for those ten seconds or less, I'm free.
Kinda like when I'm hankering for a snack and I go to the fridge, only to find nothing. Then a few minutes later, I'll go again - just to see if anything has magically materialized in the interim...
garethw
Shutdown slashdot for a few days, see whether all the geeks become anxious.
liqbase
Yeah, I have a Schroedinger's refrigerator also, but mainly because I am so tall and my fridge has alot of low shelves. There are things I'll miss until I really get hungry, squat down, and take a good close look. Excuses aside, I keep hoping for that extra snack which is still edible yet hidden... :)
...if I'm not in denial, I get a cookie and a free iPod, yes?
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Come on! Post a new article already!
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If they had a fault in their code, it probably wasn't obvious to them! As an animal with a 2 second "is this useful? no? toss it" memory, I always find myself doing simple things twice. The first time is "did it work? yes? next". If it fails, I probably wasn't paying attention to what may have caused it -- my thoughts were probably elsewhere. Granted, working on a piece of code should lend some merit to more careful concentration, but if I noticed a piece of my code failing, the most likely thing I would try next is running it again. My reasoning for this may not be the next as the same person, perhaps I visualize the code better when I run it again. What would be even more fantastic would be, in my trial and error, guess and check problem solving method, that the code ran the second time! In which case, I would be very likely to not only run it a third time, but beyond even that. Then again, I could be completely wrong, and it could be exactly that everything is so fast these days, there's almost no resource loss in just rolling a new one and trying again. I can't imagine how much better a programmer I would have been 30 years ago -- a recompile of something (or whatever method) could take hours or days -- you had to think before you acted! When I'm doing my CS 101 homework, it's easy to open a second terminal with a simple shell loop that constantly compiles my code and runs my binary! How sloppy is that? So I suppose there's quite a bit of forethought into this article and comment before me, and it.
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You will not be able to see his eyes because of Tea-Shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off when he can't find a rape victim...
I dunno these days they'll diagnose anything as a disease, disorder or syndrome. In fact anyone that hasn't got a syndrome is probably suffering from "No Syndrome Syndrome".
Life is like an analogy
I can log off anytime I want. This is not an addiction, I just choose to be online. I don't have to be connected, it's just, you know, like chocolate, it's good, satisfying, it's where it's at.
But I could stop anytime I want. Really.