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Well, personally I don't sit staring at a screen, I watch movies, play games, talk to people, build stuff and learn new things. You wouldn't say reading a book is "staring at paper" would you?
Do books do the same damage to your eyes as screens?
The medieval peasant spent how much time staring at dirt?
There's debate how much damage that difference causes, but pretending there's no difference is an unhelpful approach.
13 hours a day on average? That seems quite high to me. Assuming you sleep 8 hours, that only leaves 16 other hours for potential screen time of which 13 we are apparently looking at a screen. Lets assume another 30 minutes a day for getting washed & dressed, bio-breaks, brushing teeth, preparing food + drink etc (30 mins seems low, but I'm being generous), so 15.5 hours left. So of all of our waking hours, we spend…
Weekends might drag the average down a bit though, spend much less time in front of a screen on Saturday/Sunday.
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Do books do the same damage to your eyes as screens?
Hey, do you have specific examples of the damage you're concerned about? I've been reading up about this a lot as it is something that concerns me, but so far most of what I've says that longterm damage is mitigated by taking regular eye breaks (ie, starting at something 20+ feet away every 20 minutes for 20 seconds) & getting enough sleep (giving the eyes time to properly rest). Are these mitigation strategies insuf…
Now, as an adult, I find that I have my screen's brightness turned up way more than my peers. For example, although it's currently very sunny right now in LA, I have my brightness turned up 100% on my 16" MBP. Though, in the evenings, it's more comfortable at 3 or 4 steps down from 100%.
I can't help but to wonder -- did she condition my eye to be less sensitive to light and have thus slightly ruined my low-light vision?
Average adult will spend 34 years with a miracle portal into infinite knowledge and possibility.
The problem seems to be a mix of tons of stuff just not being on the Web yet, even decades in (some of it's in ebooks, though, yes, but a whole lot isn't) and Google having given up on "organizing the world's knowledge" or whatever their supposed mission was (now it's plainly "organize the world's advertising dollars into our bank account") so it may be there but good luck finding it.
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Do books do the same damage to your eyes as screens?
Probably? It's not like screens shoot death rays. It seems very likely that looking closely at patterns within a rectangle has the same effects whether it's made of paper or electronics.
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I'll have you know this is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine household, and we are on our 12th rewatch of the Dominion War, tyvm.
If Netflix ever adds Spin City to their catalogue I will be in trouble.
The medieval peasant spent how much time staring at dirt?
This happens in developing humans, at some point in adulthood it's suspected this stops (although some people see worsening myopia past the typical age range where it stops).