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运动手环有什么用It’s Friday evening. The smells of romary chicken and freshly-baked challah fill the hou. My daughters, 3 and 9, sigh as I gently detach the iPads from their laps. One by one, our screens are powered down. My husband, Ken, is usually the last holdout, in his office, madly scrambling to nd out just one last email before the sun ts. Then he unplugs too. We light the candles, and sit down to a sumptuous meal.
I’m prepared. I’ve printed out the next day’s schedule, along with maps and phone numbers that live on my cell phone. Most people in our lives know theywill not be able to text, tweet, email, Facebook, chat, or Skype with us for 24 hours. If theywant to reach us, they call our landline. Or they come over.
And so it has gone, everyweek for three years. Our “tech Shabbat” lasts from sunt on Friday until sunt on Saturday.
毕业论文答辩自述未来寄语 喂养小动物I first became aware of the importance of disconnecting in 2008,when my father, Leonard
Shlain,was diagnod with brain cancer. Some days he would have only one good hour, and I didn’t want to be distracted when I was with him, so I’d turn off my cell phone.
Soon after, inspired by a National Day of Unplugging （which commences this year at sundown on March 1st）， Ken and I decided to institute something we had tried in fits and starts since we met: unplugging for one full day everyweek. What we call our “technology shabbats.”
Albert Einstein said that “time is relative to your state of motion.” With all this texting, tweeting, posting, and emailing,we’re making our minds move faster,which accelerates our perception of time. It ems there isn’t a day that goes bywhen I don’t end up thinking,“How did it get to be ?”周流的意思
And what is the one day I want to feel extra long? Saturday. During our Tech Shabbats, time slows to a beautiful, preindustrial pace. We are able to engage in all tho activities that em to get pushed aside by the lure of the network. We’re Jewish but not orthodox. We drive our car, turn the lights on and answer our landline in emergencies, so ours is a
modern interpretation of a very old idea of the Sabbath. Our Saturdays now feel like mini-vacations — slow living that we savor like fine wine. We garden with our kids, play board games, ride our bikes and cook and I write in my journal. I can have a thought without being able to immediately start implementing it. I feel more grounded and balanced. We try to be as unavailable as possible, except to each other and our children. I feel like a better mother,wife and person.
Everyweek, it’s like a valve of pressure releas from the daily bombardment of interesting facts, articles, and tidbits I consume daily as I travel on this info-rocket of discovery, procrastination, productivity and then, eventually overload.
Wrestling with the good, the bad, and the potential of technology is my constant state of existence. The technologywe’ve created — that now dominates our work and home lives — gives us a plethora of new possibilities: the ability to experience more emotions, share knowledge, and take in diver ideas from across global borders. Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has found that social networking produces a burst of oxytocin, the hormone res
ponsible for bonding, empathy, trust, and generosity. I sometimes imagine that every post, tweet, and text is flooding the planet with oxytocin, making us more empathetic and more inclined to share and collaborate. Maybe this is why collaboration is on the ri.
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But the technologywe’ve created also takes something away from us: being prent, focud, and in the moment. Have you ever faked a need to u the restroom to check email? I have. More than once. Rearchers at the National Institute on Drug Abu have compared the n of technological dependency— the feeling that we must be accessible and responsive at any time and in any place — to that of drugs and alcohol.我的祖国歌曲
乳香的功效与作用 Another hormone, dopamine, provides insight on the lure of digital stimulation.
Neuroscientists have studied dopamine since 1958,when Arvid Carlsson and Nils-Ake Hillarp, at the National Heart Institute of Sweden, first examined how the chemical functions in the brain. Dopamine plays an influential role in mood, attention, memory, understanding, learning, and reward-eking behavior. Dopamine is what makes us ek pleasure and knowledge. It’s what makes us arch,whether it’s for food, x, or informati
on.
