TechStop™

Hello, I am Robert G. Male. Welcome to TechStop™. Here you will find links that I think are of interest. Furthermore these are links that I want to keep track of because they have given me either ideas or some other form of inspiration for my writing. Links are listed in order lowest to highest both in the date they are given and the order in which they appear (meaning: read them from the bottom up for a certain day's list). Some of these sites may require you to sign up for free. Without further ado, the links...

June 2010.

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June 17, 2010

Seeking: How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting.
  • It's easy to dismiss those fixated children dying of dehydration or starvation or exhaustion playing video games until the drop. Pretty much the same for abhorrent parents letting a real child die while tending to an in-game child. What though of normal or more moderate tech addiction or just the annoying insatiable need to connect? This article covers the connection between instinctive habits that are beneficial in that context and the way it has been turned into a modern craving of more and more information or connection from the online world. The crux of the matter is the idea that the human brain is more easily stimulated than satisfied. The chase or the journey really is more important than the destination here.
  • Tags: brain, connections, gadget, instinct, neurochemistry, psychology, research, search engine, Twitter.