Sentences with phrase «addiction to technology»

In the second part of the paper, the hypothetical idea of addiction to technology is introduced and scrutinized.

If you are truly concerned about addiction to technology, here are two available tools you may want to discuss with your teen: Center for Internet Addiction and Twenty Questions for Video Gaming Addiction.

Often, the misuse of, dependency upon and addiction to technology, like other vices, are fueled by a person's desire for an «easy fix,» or to avoid the pain associated with a past relational connection or disconnection.

Young people's addiction to technology is a major talking point among parents, educators and other informed individuals.

Widespread addiction to technology could add to the problem, since young people have become so comfortable communicating online that they've lost the skills to do it face - to - face.

Our emotional well - being may be affected by our addiction to technology and the great amount of time we spend indoors

If you answered yes to these questions, Psychologist and California State University Professor, Dr. Larry Rosen says you may have an iDisorder — an addiction to technology.

Huffington has dealt with her own addiction to technology and does digital detoxes.

Not exact matches

According to a recent article in the New York Times, the coalition, called the Center for Humane Technology, has brought together an impressive group of social media pioneers, leaders in tech, F500 partners, and media in an effort to educate and lobby against what they call «tech - addiction» among youth.

Will governments, investors and green - minded consumers, who put their faith in the sun's power to help wean us off our fossil - fuel addiction, back away from another technology that promised too much — in jobs and profits as much as in renewable energy — and failed to deliver?

Right now, the big discussion in Silicon Valley is around the notion of smartphone addiction, and whether or not it's healthy for young people to be so attached to the major technology platforms.

Choonsung Shin, a Korean technology researcher who has examined problematic smartphone usage in both Korea and the U.S., says cultural differences could affect smartphone addiction rates, but he notes that factors such as a person's age, gender and occupation are also likely to play a role.

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Helping your teen overcome a technology addiction is difficult to know where to start.

With rapid advances over the past 10 years in technologies for discovering and analyzing the functions of genes, researchers are now increasingly able to get at the biological roots of complex disorders such as substance abuse and addiction.

Added to that, social media technology addiction could in fact impact our social connections negatively.

Despite their admitted addiction to online dating, 22 % of Millennials say they think technology has made finding love more difficult and 57 % say they're lonely.

Modern technology is shrinking our attention span and causing tech addiction, according to Mark Kelley in an op - ed piece in the Bangor Daily News.

All of this technology needs to be fueled, though, which is where we hit upon the very foundation of No Man's Sky's addiction to mining.

Speaking to the BBC, technology addiction specialist Dr. Richard Graham said he welcomes the WHO's decision to making «gaming disorder» a recognised disease.

Tiny house as a tech - zone: All too often, our technology can end up controlling us rather than the other way around, as our abundance of internet - connected gadgets and always - on WiFi in our homes can lead to a pretty serious case of tech addiction, which may wreak havoc on our personal and family lives.

Having said that, i believe that China for example is really experiencing the kind of pollution that US did in the 50 and 60's, and that they are better equipped to move more forcibly and quicker than the US did, one reason is that no rational being would deploy techninology that is outdated,,, they would leapfrog to the newwer technology when building infrastructure... One might be able to argue that it is cheaper and more beneficial for developed to support that... That and the belief i have that they may not, as you point, want to experihence the consumption addiction that US incurred... (Note; the Europeans are substantially less than the US per capita emissions, a benefit of greater foresight — evidence that this is not a «western» problem

Gasoline indirect cost calculated based on International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), The Real Price of Gasoline, Report No. 3 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 34, and updated using ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities Associated with Global Climate Change: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: September 2004), ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities: Security and Protection Services: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: January 2005), Terry Tamminen, Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), p. 60, and Bureau for Economic Analysis, «Table 3 — Price Indices for Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Purchases,» GDP and Other Major Series, 1929 — 2007 (Washington, DC: August 2007); U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), This Week in Petroleum (Washington, DC: various issues).

In his State of the Union address last week, President Bush said the United States needs to reduce its «addiction» to oil and called for more investment in solar and other renewable energy technologies.

Today we are going to examine how new technologies and advanced fuels for passenger vehicles could help end our nation's addiction to oil.

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The European Union's addiction to the precautionary principle — which says in effect that the risks of new technologies must be measured against perfection, not against the risks of existing technologies — has caused many perverse policy decisions.

The hybrid technology offered by the GM Volt is what America needs to break its addiction to oil.

GAS2 is bridging the gap between gear heads and green heads, with news and stories that emphasize the best parts of ultra-efficient transportation technology while helping the world come to terms with its crippling addiction to oil.

Kids are developing more problems than ever (think obesity, technology addiction, adolescent depression, suicide, etc.), all of which Louv connects to nature deficit disorder.

A recent article in the Los Angeles Times suggests that technology addiction now trumps our addiction to caffeine, chocolate and alcohol.

Unfortunately, with the growth of social media marketing, virtual law firms and other web - based services, lawyers are becoming increasingly susceptible to technology addiction.

There is a downside to technology — Internet addiction.

With the advancements in technology, and the debilitating addiction to electronic devices plaguing most, the law has had to develop new causes of action to respond to the often devastating impact that the spread of private, and sometimes intimate, information can have.

Our journey to the future gets closer every day as our addiction to internet - based technology continuous to motivate models aimed at providing easier access to our Smartphones and other smart features.

Right now, the big discussion in Silicon Valley is around the notion of smartphone addiction, and whether or not it's healthy for young people to be so attached to the major technology platforms.

On that note, digital advocacy organisation Common Sense has partnered with the Center for Humane Technology to announce a new campaign «to protect young minds from the potential of manipulation and digital addiction».

John is an author and technology enthusiast with a bit of an addiction to cold weather, mountains, and the nomad lifestyle.

A number of psychologists have described some forms of love just as you have: like an addiction; there is intense desire to spend time with the object of our affection, we experience intense cravings, emotional dependence, mood swings, and even loss of control and compulsive behaviors.1 In one study utilizing fMRI technology (brain imaging), subcortical reward systems in the brain were activated when adults viewed photographs of someone who had rejected their love; 2 this part of the brain is the same area that lights up when people experience intense, romantic love3 and is rich in dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with rewards like pleasure.

While alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography and sex addictions are these «usual suspects,» things like social media and other smartphone technology have given rise to a new form of relationship disengagement.

It is not about a digital «diet» or «detox», but about a positive, long term relationship with cyberspace that allows us to get the best out of technology, while avoiding the pitfalls of «internet addiction».

Similarly in an online survey from The Diana Award, conducted amongst 852 under 18's to gauge the top issues affecting young people online, 50 % chose «technology addiction / Feeling «hooked» to my devices and the internet», 70 % chose «social pressure to get likes or have more followers, and 33 % chose «pressure to always post content and photos online».