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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Recently I was invited to speak at our local high school graduation as part of their "Great American Teach-in," a plan held here in Florida whereby guests are inspired to talk with the students over a variety of subjects. Among my offer related articles caught a person's eye of an local teacher and i also was subsequently asked from the Business/IT Department to come directly into develop remarks regarding business and technology. My talk was entitled "Our Changing Times" which discussed how technology affects us as human-beings. It was my argument that technology has a detrimental effect on our mental acuity and productivity within this country. I conducted two consecutive classes of approximately 50 senior high school juniors each. Both sessions were interesting.<br />
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I began using a very brief description of my company and our [http://www.tecnoinfinity.info Noticias de Tecnología] for system design, database design, enterprise engineering, and project management software. Basically, I wanted to create myself being a credible businessman who had extensive experience with the business plus it world. Next, i reviewed the cultural and technical changes I witnessed throughout the last 40 years. I even brought in some old mainframe magnetic tapes, printer wheels, and plastic templates used for flowcharting.<br />
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I then discussed how [http://www.tecnoinfinity.info/la-tecnologia-en-la-vida-del-hombre/ Tecnologia] affects us as humans. It is indeed my contention that technology has conditioned us being intolerant of inefficiencies and limitations thereby causing us to believe faster, virtually, and multitask. Think about it; and we don't want to stand it traffic, we'd like information at our fingertips, we be prepared to manage to hear any song or watch any movie whenever we're inside mood, we should enter and out of hospitals, we'd like instant food, instant pictures, instant credit, instant money, instant everything. We drive faster and talk faster because were conditioned to do this.<br />
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As one example of the idea, I quoted some references; first, Dr. Mack R. Hicks, author of "The Digital Pandemic," who demonstrated how technology alters the minds of impressionable youth. A case in point, they begin to exhibit a similar robotic mannerisms from the technology they'll use which is not conducive for grooming socialization skills. Hicks basically argued that technology is often a genuine threat on the human spirit.<br />
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I next referenced the work of Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at King's College London University, who in 2005 was hired by Horsepower to look into the effect of technology operate. During his study he learned that workers distracted by telephone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a larger loss of IQ than if they'd smoked marijuana. The IQ of the juggling messages and work fell by an average of 10 points - equal to missing an entirely night's sleep and more than twice the four-point fall seen after smoking pot. The drop in IQ was even more in men.<br />
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These studies surprised the scholars. To stress the point further, Gurus students how they received their news. Beyond 100 students, only 4 read a newspaper, a few first got it from an app on the iPhone and virtually none watched the evening news. Interestingly, a few said they were given their news from Jon Stewart on "Comedy Central." Obviously, I ran across it rather disturbing that students lost of touch with all the world's ever-changing events and considered Jon Stewart a reputable source for unbiased journalism. Whereas adults are likely to be upset with politicians, the economy, jobs, military conflicts, etc., our the younger generation are rather apathetic. I do not believe parents even talk with them throughout the table, that we found rather disturbing. Fortunately, this kind of gang of students will not be of sufficient age to vote in the 2012 election; in case they did, I'm confident they could be easily swayed.<br />
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As students in the late 1960's we obviously was without all the elegant technology out of the box on the market, but we all knew what was going on on earth. Everyone see the daily newspaper and weekly news magazines, watched nightly news, heard radio, and discussed it over lunch or with their parents. All of us knew about the War (Viet Nam), the protests, major accidents and catastrophes, elections, the different assassinations, etc. If you didn't remain on surface of recent events, you were considered a dullard. Not today. The truth is, I acquired the uneasy feeling that you're an oddity should you keep to the news today.<br />
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Wanting to understand their attachment to technology, Industry experts the top Schoolers whenever they could live without their smartphones. All except one said they believed they can manage. The main one exception wouldn't budge, even though I pushed her to defend her position. In their mind, the phone was her lifeline to her friends and social interaction. Without one, she was lost.<br />
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Inside summary section of my presentation I admonished students to build up feeling of history, not merely American history, but history regarding their chosen career path. I reported this became needed so they wouldn't commit a similar mistakes we made and realise why we made sure decisions over time. I challenged these phones stay away to be on "automatic," in order to avoid repetition; avoid stagnation; to question the status quo, and just THINK (a classic IBM expression) [http://www.tecnoinfinity.info/especificaciones-sobre-ipad-3/ Características del iPad 3].<br />
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I not really know how successful I had been at getting my points across. Some students looked as apathetic as a lot of adult programmers We've taught over time. The teachers did actually appreciate my presentation and informed me so. I also a few students thank me for that presentation afterward, shook me, and asked a few pre-determined questions. I don't think I batted 1.000 with the kids tomorrow, but if I got these phones a minimum of start contemplating things, i quickly believe I made a hit.</div>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:42:16 GMTJacquiGresham128http://www.aalf.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:JacquiGresham128