TECH - THE NEW ADDICTION?

I’m sitting in an airport at the moment, and looking around me this is what I see…

• Three businessmen sit on separate tables in front of me – one listening to headphones on his laptop, one on the phone and the other staring into his computer screen.
  
• A group of girls travelling to somewhere hot (as evident by their summery clothing) gather tight together around the table to take a series of selfies on someone’s phone.
  
• A man further to my right stares intently at his phone and his headphones are plugged into the computer playing a movie of some sorts. A woman who appears to be his wife is next to him, headphones in and too watching something on her own laptop.
  
• The group of girls are no longer taking photos, instead they are sitting around a table all 7 of them looking at their separate phones while having lunch.

All of these people are completely focused on their phones and laptops – even the ones in groups will chat for a short while but pretty quickly go back to scrolling through their social media, messaging others, checking their emails or posting the latest pic on Instagram. It’s fascinating to see just how much we rely on technology to keep us occupied throughout the entire day, and how the business world too has completely changed so that now a lot of information, writing and communications are done over the phone and computer rather than in person.

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