The thing with doctors is that it is generally easier to bring your body to the doctor's office than it might be to bring a desktop computer to a technician's office somewhere. I realize this isn't nescessarily the case with laptops, but it's more feasible than doctors making housecalls. Also, for a lot of the people I know, it is better for them not to have to unplug anything...;)
Who knows? Maybe technicians will go the way of doctors, working in a central building somewhere with people coming to them.
...That this movie was also created with the mainstream public in mind, who are not necessarily devoted fans of Tolkien. This gives allowance for changes and omissions/dramatic liberties taken; it has to appeal to the jaded masses as well as the rest of us.
It occurs to me that although the technology is not currently being implemented for "constant scrutiny," it could be changed in the future to do just that, after having gotten people used to the idea of sometimes being monitored.
On the other hand, that may be the point where the "black box" becomes less useful and more invasive, and that is when people stop using it.
The point of the article is less that it's an addiction to data itself and more of an addiction to the constant stimulation one gets from always checking statistics, email, messages, and so on. This doesn't make it a disease, but it's more important to get that people are getting to the point of needing to always have the stimulation of doing things that it could be the cause of a kind of ADD.
I don't think it really matters whether or not the technology is there yet; it's if people think it is there or that it could be there. If they do think that it exists, that is where problems start to arise.
(Just look at Bush with his Star Wars defense plan)
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The thing with doctors is that it is generally easier to bring your body to the doctor's office than it might be to bring a desktop computer to a technician's office somewhere. I realize this isn't nescessarily the case with laptops, but it's more feasible than doctors making housecalls. Also, for a lot of the people I know, it is better for them not to have to unplug anything... ;)
Who knows? Maybe technicians will go the way of doctors, working in a central building somewhere with people coming to them.
...That this movie was also created with the mainstream public in mind, who are not necessarily devoted fans of Tolkien. This gives allowance for changes and omissions/dramatic liberties taken; it has to appeal to the jaded masses as well as the rest of us.
It occurs to me that although the technology is not currently being implemented for "constant scrutiny," it could be changed in the future to do just that, after having gotten people used to the idea of sometimes being monitored. On the other hand, that may be the point where the "black box" becomes less useful and more invasive, and that is when people stop using it.
The point of the article is less that it's an addiction to data itself and more of an addiction to the constant stimulation one gets from always checking statistics, email, messages, and so on. This doesn't make it a disease, but it's more important to get that people are getting to the point of needing to always have the stimulation of doing things that it could be the cause of a kind of ADD.
I don't think it really matters whether or not the technology is there yet; it's if people think it is there or that it could be there. If they do think that it exists, that is where problems start to arise.
(Just look at Bush with his Star Wars defense plan)