Endless messaging rots brain worse than pot, study finds

[Kadie]

E-mail addles the mind
Endless messaging rots brain worse than pot, study finds
Benjamin Pimentel, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, May 4, 2005


What's more harmful -- taking a hit or hitting the send button?

A study commissioned by Hewlett-Packard has found that excessive day-to- day use of technology -- whether it's sending e-mails or using mobile phones -- can be more distracting and harmful to the IQ than smoking marijuana.

The research conducted for HP by scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London warns of the "abuse of always-on technology" in which "workers are literally addicted to checking e-mail and text messages during meetings, in the evening and at weekends."

The study called this condition info-mania.

more...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/04/BUGOSCJGA41.DTL&type=tech


I will not be back to check the responses to this for at least 30 seconds or so. I am not addicted to this technology.

[demnan]

1. I agree

I saw a man who had to be at least sixty at the checkout line of the grocery actually stop in the middle of everything to take a phonecall. The grocery clerk and I were waiting minutes for him to finish his transaction. I finally said, "Do you mind, I'm in a hurry here." How rude is that! "World stop, I'm on the phone!"