Reading Hooked on Gadgets and Happy About It @The Conversation – Harvard Business Review

Great post from Alexandra Samuel. For some reason I take some comfort in my notion that these kind of warnings were always given at the advent of new technologies. And – also to my comfort – i prefer these days instead of the 1930′s, the 1880′s or even 1990.

Great post to think about and act accordingly

Found at Hooked on Gadgets and Happy About It – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review.

Yesterday’s New York Times has a two-page feature, Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price . It’s a sign of the growing awareness and concern about how our network-centric lives are not only affecting our work but also our personal lives, and even our bodies — you might say, our souls.

To be continued at http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/06/hooked_on_gadgets_and_happy_ab.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+harvardbusiness/cs+(Conversation+Starter+on+HBR.org)

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