Digital Drugs: How Teens Are Using The Internet To Get 'High'
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 19/07/2010 00:55
With a little help from the internet, young people getting high off of "digital drugs," NewsOK reports.
According to a News 9 segment, these "digital drugs" use "binaural, or two-toned, technology to alter your brain waves and mental state," producing a "state of ecstasy" for the user. i-Dosers listen to these atonal tracks while sitting motionless with headphones on.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/15/digital-drugs-get-teens-h_n_647397.html
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i-dosing: the DIGITAL DRUG TERROR that is SWEEPING THE NATION, possibly
There have been some hilarious reports going around on the internet about a new drug scare in American schools, and - because we lack any form of originality in our mass hysteria on this side of the pond - I'd bet the Northern Rock bailout to a euro that we'll soon see it over here. It's called i-dosing, the "digital drug".
It's not as cool as you think - we haven't reached Neuromancer or even Red Dwarf levels of virtual reality, where you can plug your brain stem into cyberspace and enter an addictive computerised universe. Instead, it's wrapping your head in a towel and listening to white noise on your iPod.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tomchivers/100044998/the-digital-drug-terror-that-is-sweeping-the-nation-possibly/