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Any technology product that promises to cure anxiety, depression, or stress is going to fail. Technology is a large part of the problem.

• dholowiski 14y ago
  Really? Sources? Why do you think so?
  • 001sky 14y ago
    Overview: I think this was the general point “The technology is rewiring our brains,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse and one of the world’s leading brain scientists. She and other researchers compare the lure of digital stimulation less to that of drugs and alcohol than to food and sex, which are essential but counterproductive in excess. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?scp=1&sq=hooked%20gadgets&st=cse http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?sc...
    • faul_sname 14y ago
      Everything we do rewires our brain. That's how we learn. And note that she say "counterproductive in excess".
• alid 14y ago
  I take a far more optimistic stance. Yes technology is part of the problem - we now receive five times as much information every day than we did in 1986, & our brains are exposed daily to more information than a laptop can handle. Yet technology can be part of the solution. Our ways of communicating and relating to the world around us, and our knowledge of human psychology and brain development, have developed dramatically - surely there's a way we can tap this. (I've written a rant about this on my personal blog www.thecreativefiles.com)