RE: UKNM: 'higher levels of depression and loneliness'

[Philip Rooke]

20 to 25 years ago there were articles kicking around saying that heavy

viewers of TV suffered from 'higher levels of depression and loneliness'

and 'a decline in psychological well-being'.


Then we had personal stereos will make us all deaf and unable to

converse.  Followed by games machines will make us all violent

psychopaths.  


This gives us three alternatives:


1) It's easy to blame new technology for the same old problems.  It

makes copy and like most things can be proved by research. (All research

results being a product of the question asked)


2) Technology attracts people more prone to 'higher levels of depression

and loneliness' who look to technology to solve their problems.


3) We are all going to become deaf psychopaths and that's depressing.


I suspect a combination of the first two.  Personally I find prolonged

exposure to living in houses without dish washers leads to 'higher

levels of depression' and intend to launch a paper to prove it! 


Philip Rooke

Carlton Online