Internet addiction even worries Silicon Valley
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 29/07/2012 23:50
The latest trend on the internet is to step away from the internet, according to a growing band of American technology leaders and psychologists for whom the notion of the addictive power of digital gadgets is gaining sway.
Although the idea of a clinical disorder of internet addiction was first mooted in the 90s and is now regularly treated by doctors on both sides of the Atlantic, attention is shifting from compulsive surfing to the effects of the all-pervasive demands that our phones, laptops, tablets and computers are making on us.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/29/internet-addiction-hooked-digital-technology
