On: How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

[tim333]

I agree a FDA for tech addictiveness probably won't happen. Now a Chrome extension to block much of it similar to adblock. That would be doable.

[firebones → tim333]

Shame beats it. See up-thread. Once people start seeing mindless staring at phones as the public health equivalent of smoking, things will improve.

[tim333 → firebones]

As someone who spends much of the day staring at screens (more macbook than phone) I'm not sure that's going to happen in a hurry. I guess it's hard to distinguish the mindless staring from learning something useful. I can't even figure which category my own time reading the latest Trump craziness falls into though probably more the mindless category. (see also http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/admit-it-you-people-want-se...)