2023-07-09 22:04:38
With the approach of the holidays, in our world of Geek between nomophobia and illectronism where to be located?
Here, look at this table in the restaurant. This elegant couple. Face to face, but elsewhere. Each blurred in his digital bubble, each ignoring the other, too busy fiddling with his smartphone. Images, words, reality, are diluted in the bits of a digital world where dialogue itself has become virtual. They are nomophobic. In the DSM published by the American Psychiatric Association, nomophobia is the panic fear of not having your smartphone with you, sleeping with it or staying on it permanently. How to know? Just try to go without it for a day…
Do you know the Baduy of Banten? It’s a small community of about 26,000 rather quiet people living on the island of Java, and (paradoxically) making the buzz since the “Jakarta Post” revealed its desire for the internet to let them go a bit!
Indeed, like players being banned from casinos, the Baduys asked the authorities to cut off the internet to reduce the negative impact of smartphones and the virtual world on the younger generation. In order to preserve their ancestral way of life from modernization.
In the United States, in Brooklyn, a club of teenagers, the luddists, returns to flip phones to detach themselves from screens and “rediscover real life”. Their name refers to Ned Ludd, a textile worker who in the 18th century led the revolt in England against the first industrial weaving machines.
“The day I got a flip phone, everything changed,” explains Nancy. “I’ve sorted out the people I want to be friends with. Now they are no longer virtual, but real”. 3% of the population remains resistant to mobile phones and do not feel the need. A reference for repentants. They have realized their addiction to screens. They want to regain power over the hyperconnectivity that has enslaved them and ultimately find it rather stupid to flaunt their privacy on Facebook. They can no longer bear the exchanges suddenly interrupted by someone who calls or answers on his cell phone in defiance of others.
Conducted earlier this month, according to a Harris poll with Fast Company, as ChatGPT and other generative AI tools herald new upheaval, 67% of Americans surveyed would like to return to a time without the internet or smartphones, compared to 33% who could not do without. More than half said it was difficult to keep up with new technologies and 57% thought they were more likely to divide people than unite them. Here we are… !
In our beautiful postmodern society, we can have all the culture and information available on the planet in a few clicks, free of charge and without filter. But by making interlocutors useless, this omnipotence reinforces our isolation by exempting us from going to others.
So is there something beyond the screens? Yes ! Some say so. They claim all you have to do is log off and look up. Then the world (re)appears.
Of course, you have to dare…
P.R
Source :
https://www.fastcompany.com/90909279/gen-xers-and-older-millennials-really-just-want-to-go-back-in-time-to-before-the-internet-existed
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