Are You Innovating or Just Wasting Our Time?
Are You Innovating or Just Wasting Our Time?
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Are we really helping people live better lives? Or, are we promoting suboptimal habits and aptitudes? At best, many of the products we're building are time wasters. At worst, they're the addictive equivalents of cigarettes — irresistible cheap thrills …
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Do You Have the 'Internet–Addiction Gene'?
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Another site reported that scientists have "nailed down the gene responsible for internet addiction." Is it true? No, but its falseness is interesting for what it says both about the nature of our addictions and about how scientific researchers …
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Why We All Have 'Internet–Addiction Genes'
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All of this helps explain why internet use can arguably become addictive in the sense that some chemicals are addictive — that is, we can develop a dysfunctionally strong devotion to the internet, a devotion that leads us to neglect obligations and …
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Natalie Carney – Internet Addiction Rises in Turkey – More and more people are “logging on” as the Internet becomes increasingly available to everyone, even those in the most remote corners of the world. However with this surge of web users, comes a surge of web addicts. Although the concept of “internet addiction” has been debated by specialists since the mid 90’s, Turkey has been progressively acknowledging the illness by opening Internet addiction clinics all across the country to help treat this modern day problem. Natalie Carney has more from Istanbul
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I have an unhealthy addiction to the internet (._.) But I don’t wanna get “help” 😛 – by DeviousDorian (Dorian Masters ._.)
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Dallas twwwimee! (although i watched it on the internet because i have an addiction and need help **) – by RhiarnaDhaliwal (Rhiarna Dhaliwal)
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Novelists Seek Help Fighting Internet Addiction | The Fix http://t.co/3Ovx5MXp – by annerallen (Anne R. Allen)