Re-invention of wheel. See "Internet addiction disorder".[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction_disorder
Digitopia is ruining our lives
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#13> I’ve decided to combine the words “Digital" and “dystopia” to describe the hole I’ve found myself in. "Digital" and "Utopia" also combine to make "Digitopia". (Maybe my most HN comment yet.)
I also thought only of utopia.
dystopia is a relatively recent derivative of utopia.
An individual can suffer in the middle of an utopia.
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#14It's interesting that, every time an article comes up like this, I wonder why I never seem to experience the same kind of digital addiction or negative feelings that other people do - and then it turns out I'm already doing almost everything the article suggests for "unplugging". I've taken an hour long walk every single day for the past 15 years, and shower, and make sure I'm not getting overwhelmed with notifications. Yet, I feel no desire to interact with the physical world. I prefer being online, perhaps because I know how to handle it properly. I wonder how much of our misery is caused by poor user-experience defaults that people don't think to change (like always-on notifications). We get used to a corporate-designed hellscape and think that's the only way to experience a digital existence.
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#15I sounds recognizable and also insightful and as such perhaps the beginnings of a research question and hypothesis… I’d advice against making it more than that for now. We need real research, scientific recommendations. Something real. Otherwise it could just be a reflection of the human state as it always was. Similar to blogs claiming: “Stuff is not fun anymore, when I was young…” Yeah that’s it, you’re now old and you’re not having fun anymore. It says nothing about the world.
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#16It's interesting that, every time an article comes up like this, I wonder why I never seem to experience the same kind of digital addiction or negative feelings that other people do - and then it turns out I'm already doing almost everything the article suggests for "unplugging". I've taken an hour long walk every single day for the past 15 years, and shower, and make sure I'm not getting overwhelmed with notificatio…
I'm happy to see that you are able to strike a good balance between those two worlds and, in an ideal world, that should be the ideal outcome, rather than going back into the stone age.
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#17What is wrong with the tried-and-true "alienation"? This seems like a continuation of trends that were happening long before computers came around.
What do you mean by "tried-and-true alienation"?
I'm not the person you asked, but alienation was a major theme for early 20th century sociologists who studied the ugly effects of urbanization in those days.
Alienation means the breakdown of social ties and the fragmentation of identity. Durkheim published theories on this stuff well over 100 years ago. He also studied suicide.
I agree that we're probably seeing a continuation of trends that began long ago and that are tied in with capitalism, urbanization, and the decline of religion.
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#18I sounds recognizable and also insightful and as such perhaps the beginnings of a research question and hypothesis… I’d advice against making it more than that for now. We need real research, scientific recommendations. Something real. Otherwise it could just be a reflection of the human state as it always was. Similar to blogs claiming: “Stuff is not fun anymore, when I was young…” Yeah that’s it, you’re now old and…
Thanks for the feedback. But could you elaborate a bit? Are you interested in pieces that lay on the scientific-side of things or personal stories?
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#19Hey HN, I, as many of you, work in tech. And the last 3 years were mentally horrible. The constant information bombardment, working remotely and rarely leaving the apartment, isolation, and so on and so forth, have left me scarred. If anyone feels the same way, I hope that the pieces I'm shipping are helpful as I truly want to help a million people on overcoming the 21st century pandemic. For those who are curious, I…
Digiqatsi, even.
Cue the Philip Glass soundtrack! clouds start to whizz by
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#20Hey HN, I, as many of you, work in tech. And the last 3 years were mentally horrible. The constant information bombardment, working remotely and rarely leaving the apartment, isolation, and so on and so forth, have left me scarred. If anyone feels the same way, I hope that the pieces I'm shipping are helpful as I truly want to help a million people on overcoming the 21st century pandemic. For those who are curious, I…
Please remember that your experience discovering you were not suffering from ADHD is not shared by all your readers.
I have only been diagnosed after 30+ years of guilt and shame related to procrastination and other behaviors associated with ADHD.
Please recognize some of your readers actually suffer from this.