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Texting while driving…..
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/hot_lists/high_performance/features_class…
Came across this video and found it very disturbing……who would have thought that texting while driving is more dangers than drinking and driving under the influence although both can cause the same damage.While driving and texting the video shows that the reaction time is much slower than the individual under the influence if alcohol. Its the same as talking to someone while they are texting. To me there is no way you can fully have the attention of the texter because it also obvious that sum of the information relayed to him or her would be lost in translation even though he or she she remember most of the conversation. While texting you fail to realize that time goes on and that u are in way separated yourself from the real world and unconsciously entered into a social network but at the same time,time is constantly moving and its not until you focus your attention back to the real world you realize what you have missed out on alot while you where texting.
Restrain
Communication issues are becoming more challenging and they are impacting the quality of our daily life. Numerous issues have come to the surface, and they are not new, however, in my opinion these issues brought to light have the potential of huge benefits or damage to us, just like Lusely said “the new technology can also be dangerous,” and I agree that there are increasingly more things demanding our attention, and the way I see it, there is plenty more to come, and all this keeps our brain engaged in numerous tasks. I have a feeling that we have yet to realize how much we have not thought of in terms of technology helping us to communicate.
Furthermore; our brain has this uncontrollable thirst to keep busy, learning and in some kind of interaction or stimulation. The urge for us to communicate is ingrained in us humans, we are not fans of solitude, and communication between us validate who we are, for example, we always try to convince our friends that we are special, and to some degree better than others, and confiding in our close friends we seek endorsement, this creates a chain reaction that branches out into a million consequences, and technology facilitates the relieve of this compulsion.
Wired for Distraction? By Dalton Conley, is an interesting read, among other things it say that “when we set our mind to concentrate on something — and reactive attention, when our brain reflexively tunes in to novel stimuli. We obviously need both for survival, whether in the wilds of prehistory or while crossing a street today, but our saturated media universe has perhaps privileged the latter form and is wiring our kids’ brains differently.” Time magazine. At the end of the day it all depends on the individual, as some may say that multitasking with daily chores and communication devices is no big deal, I’ll say to that: let’s look at the quality of these tasks performed. As the increasing gadgets are here to stay and we just have to get re- acquainted to the meaning of “restrain.”
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multitasking- talking/walking/driving while texting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPW8xmI4w6U
I’m sure we all have seen the infamous video of a young woman who thinks it is very easy to walk and text but soon realized that this wasn’t so after she ends up in a water fountain in the middle of the Mall. Examining the video, it was so obvious that she was so focused and devoted to texting, she somewhat forgot that she has to look ahead instead of down on her cell phone to move forward. We all text, everyday, constantly, frequently, some more than others. It is a way of communicating with friends, families, coworkers or whoever the case may be. Short messages or long messages, it is still challenging to focus your complete and utter attention to texting and any other activity that is done at the exact moment.
Speaking from personal experiences, I text a lot, but it is very hard for me to text and walk, text and talk or to text and do any other activities that require a solid amount of attention. Texting while talking to someone rude, while talking or driving while texting can be very dangerous. Whenever I talk to my mom, I definitely have to pay attention and not text, because she asks questions to see if I really was paying attention or just nodding for the sake of nodding. : )
Also, we all know that texting while driving is very dangerous. Texting requires more attention and because of this, we tend to limit the attention of focusing on the road, and place more emphasis on the texting which in many cases, result in accidents, fender benders and even fatalities.
So for those of us who text and drive/walk/talk or any other activities, be careful you may end up tripping, falling into fountains or even seriously hurt.
Walking In a Bubble
From the Sloop and Gunn article:
The use of any means of communication materially alters the body (and its movement) and strongly encourages a change in the way we understand our world and our identities through the expansion of the body in space and time.
Note this Gothamist.com post on a topic we spent at least twenty minutes talking about in the class the other day. Note both the picture (which I mentioned in class), and the figure for average speed at which someone wearing headphones walks. I think that qualifies as having the way we move our bodies materially altered. It should also be of interest that headphones are generally banned during competitive running events, although mainly only for elite runners and with enforcement being at the race directors’ discretion. For any of you who work out or run, or even if you just listen to your iPod while walking down the street, do you feel a change in your stride when you listen to music? Do you sometimes notice this change only after you’ve already been doing it? This non-conscious change is what Sloop and Gunn mean to imply when they are using Marshall McLuhan’s concept of technology being “prosthetic.” It is an extension of our bodies, one that sometimes we neglect to really notice.
