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Has tech ruined our relationship with time?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 29.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, technology-free
Summary | When the Oxford University Press revealed a list of the most commonly used nouns, number one was "time". Our lives seem to be dominated by (digital) clocks. If you take a look at available smartphone apps, you'll notice that they are designed to save us time. The author of the article wrote a book about people's obssesion with time. It is now almost impossible to experience time independently of technology.
Image Description | Photograph of an arm and a smart watch, and people gathered under the Waterloo station clock
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s)
The science behind why you shouldn't take your phone on holiday
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 28.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | We take our smartphones with us everywhere, including when we go on vacation. However, smartphones can become a distraction. The articles lists several reasons why people should leave their phone at home and enjoy their vacation: for instance, holidays are good and technology can lead to a lot of problems and dangers, you want to relax and soak up the artmosphere, you want to avoid unimportant trivia, you want to bond with other people, you want to avoid wasting time, you want to leave with the best memories.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of young people taking a selfie, two hands holding a smartphone and taking a picture of a landscape, four young people on their digital devices, man holding a phone and looking at it,
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), selfie, smartphone
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