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So the next time you sit down to watch television, or, um, surf the internet, remember: your BMP count might be getting into dangerous territory. Try to imagin

by DavidSJ 16y ago

So the next time you sit down to watch television, or, um, surf the internet, remember: your BMP count might be getting into dangerous territory. Try to imagine that same sentence with "to read a book" substituted for "to watch television, or, um, surf the internet". Hard, isn't it? This is anti-technology bigotry. Pretty surprising at singularityhub.com, huh? That's how pervasive it is.

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sailormoon 16y ago
This is anti-technology bigotry. Where did you get that from? It's nothing to do with technology per se, it's about the sedentary position we adopt when making use of that technology. If anything it is decrying the insufficiently advanced technology we currently possess, which requires us to sit in from of a little screen in a certain position to use. I don't know why you bring up reading books as if that somehow strengthens your claim. Reading books is wonderful for the brain but does little or nothing for the body. You need to exercise both.
theBobMcCormick 16y ago
I would assume they picked the examples because it's singularityhub. Most of their readers are likely to be technology/gadget centric and a message about more tech centric activities was probably expected to resonate better than a message about something as "old fashioned" as reading a book. Beside, be honest. What percentage of the population do you think actually spends more time reading books than watching TV and surfing the internet? BTW: According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, watching TV accounted for more than half the total leisure time for Americans 15 years and older. (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm)
- johngunderman 16y ago
  I used to. I don't watch TV, but I probably spend too much time on the computer. Just a few years ago I would read more than any other activity.
r7000 16y ago
Maybe surfing the net is more addictive than reading a book.

by DavidSJ 16y ago

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sailormoon 16y ago

This is anti-technology bigotry. Where did you get that from? It's nothing to do with technology per se, it's about the sedentary position we adopt when making use of that technology. If anything it is decrying the insufficiently advanced technology we currently possess, which requires us to sit in from of a little screen in a certain position to use. I don't know why you bring up reading books as if that somehow strengthens your claim. Reading books is wonderful for the brain but does little or nothing for the body. You need to exercise both.

theBobMcCormick 16y ago

I would assume they picked the examples because it's singularityhub. Most of their readers are likely to be technology/gadget centric and a message about more tech centric activities was probably expected to resonate better than a message about something as "old fashioned" as reading a book. Beside, be honest. What percentage of the population do you think actually spends more time reading books than watching TV and surfing the internet? BTW: According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, watching TV accounted for more than half the total leisure time for Americans 15 years and older. (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm)

johngunderman 16y ago
I used to. I don't watch TV, but I probably spend too much time on the computer. Just a few years ago I would read more than any other activity.

r7000 16y ago

Maybe surfing the net is more addictive than reading a book.