Daniel Dulake runs a successful web design agency called Web Digital, based in London. During the years he has seen the use of technology become more pervasive than ever in daily life. Today, it seems all encompassing but there are ways to help people control their habit and find a balance. Here are tips to help anyone maintain a positive relationship with the amount of technology used.
You can’t always be on-call. Are you prepared to read and answer emails at late on a Friday night? If the answer is no, then turn your phone to mute and remove notifications that may appear. However, if you have children this is hard to do as you never know what might happen.
Measure Your Usage. Apps like Quality Time, which breaks down my daily internet usage are a great way to do this. There are many only to choose from. Seeing how much time you was spending online may move you into becoming a more mindful techy. Think about the strain the bright screen has on your eyes after prolonged use. Would you allow another person to disturb you with news bulletins from thousands of miles away; to tug at your shoulder shouting “Hey’’ when you’re clearly engaged in real-life conversation at that moment? Not really. So don’t allow your phone to either. You control where your attention goes and that is done with willpower, according to Daniel.
Interaction VS Isolation. Generational differences in learning techniques are apparent in how people of different ages approach technology. However, it can be argued that how we approach problems has now changed. It has been said that we, the Internet generation, are closer to our grandparents in our work ethic and vision of the future than our parents. The internet has been our go-to-guy for everything, and can reach us through our phones, TV, cars even our watches. Soon we will all walk around wearing AI Augmented reality glasses (or chips in our brain), getting run over by silent driverless cars. Until then, Google is the best we have.
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