Mar Elias Evangelisation

Behavioral Addiction

"At an Apple event in January 2010, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad... For ninety minutes, Jobs explained why the iPad was the best way to look at photos, listen to music, browse Facebook, play games.. He believed everyone should own an iPad. But he refused to let his kids use the device.

In late 2010, Jobs told New York Times journalist Nick Bilton that his children had never used the iPad. "We limit how much technology our kids use in the home."
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Walter Isaacson who ate dinner with the Jobs family while researching his biography of Steve Jobs, told Bilton that "No one ever pulled an iPad or computer. The kids did not seem addicted at all to devices.""

Irresistible - Adam Alter.

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"Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired, enforced strict time limits on every device in his home, "because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand". Evan Williams, a founder of Twitter, bought hundreds of books for his two sons but refused to give them an iPad.

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This is unsettling. Why are the world's greatest public technology people also its greatest private technophobes?

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The environment and circumstance of the digital age are far more conductive to addiction than anything humans have experienced in our history. In the 1960s we swam through waters with only a few hooks: cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs that were expensive and generally inaccessible. In the 2010s those same waters are littered with hooks. There's the Facebook hook. The Instagram hook. The online shopping hook. The porn hook. And so on. The list is long."

End quote. (from Irresistible - Adam Alter).

I can only say one thing: what a loss. At the end I am inclined to ask myself the self imposing question: Why do they do it? Why?

The answer is simple: "p-r-o-f-i-t" Noam Chomsky. I see it all around me (I might be blind). No one is satisfied with the simple life anymore. Everyone wants more and more. More for myself Less for others, this is the ideology of the 21st century. And this greed has decimated the planet.

Disclosure: I might be blind yes. I'm not brainwashing you, this is why you should think about everything I say, and throw it in the garbage if you thought it was garbage.