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Unit8 Time . Addiction . Technology

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In fact, studies have shown that when we use apps like TikTok and smartphones, as well as games that we enjoy, our brains produce more than double the amount of dopamine that we normally do. It has been scientifically proven that dopamine exerts a necessary influence on human addiction. Behavioral psychologists who rely on electronic devices also call it technology addiction.In today's society, our lives are getting faster and more stressful, so our bodies are craving more and more dopamine, which provides a lot of room for technology addiction. Over time, our desire for dopamine can easily lead us to get sucked into constantly checking our phones or playing video games. If you don't, you will experience anxiety, depression and other negative emotions. Just like a smoker who smokes frequently, sometimes even a smoker may fall into a state of anxiety about not being able to work.According to a 2013 study by Microsoft, the average amount of time people can stay focused has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000 to eight seconds as a result of increasing reliance on electronic devices. In addition to having difficulty concentrating, people who are addicted also become more closed off. In order to attract people, these technology platforms will use algorithms to recommend things that people are interested in so as to try their best to keep people. As a result, people only pay attention to the information that they are interested in and tend to ignore other information.  If all people choose the information they like to read according to their own mind, then the world they see is the world they want to see or the world that the communicator wants us to see, rather than the world as it really exists.Actually, we have fallen into the "information cocoon room", a term coined by Harvard professor J.Gramm Slattery proposed"In the process of information dissemination, the information that everyone needs is not comprehensive, but tends to pay attention to what everyone chooses or makes them happy. Over time, everyone will live in a single 'cocoon' ".Living in a "cocoon" can make us feel very comfortable, because we are surrounded by things we like, and over time we lose our enthusiasm for active thinking and exploration and become "closed ".So through this story, I want to convey the idea is that we often need to beware of science and technology in the trap, don't indulge yourself, even if your brain and tiktok or other electronic products are reminding you said "you need to dopamine", but sometimes we need a more in-depth thinking in our life.This kind of deep, heartfelt thinking may require us to climb a high mountain, finish reading an obscure book, or slow down the pace of life, and take a look at the scenery on the roadside. These processes may make us very Not adapting, because we are doing these things against our nature. But after not adapting, we will experience the joy of peace of mind and not being anxious, and at that time we will not be slaves to our own desires.

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The beginning of the film was blurred, and after a while, a shot slowly zoomed out. What you see in front of you is a skull in a dilapidated room, sitting on the sofa holding a gamepad. The phone beside the table vibrated from time to time. The TV facing him is still on. A mouse knocked off a vase on the table, and the vase broke to the ground. The whole scene was dilapidated, but in the next second the vase miraculously restored the mouse and ran backwards. All the scenes went back in time. Immediately afterwards, the light outside the window became bigger and bigger, and the vision became brighter and brighter until it was blank. A young man opened his eyes. It turned out that everything in front of him was his nightmare. He seemed to be immersed in the dream just now, and he was very flustered. He stood up and found him sitting in the field. The wall of the house disappeared. He was nervously observing the surroundings, being alert to everything around him. He just took a step and found that the scene in front of him had switched again. This time he came to the bamboo forest and he became no longer afraid. He felt the charm of nature, so he He couldn't help taking a step forward. This time he came to the beach. The sea kept washing his feet. He felt the coldness of the sea. He took another step forward, and this time he crossed to a room. There were white ribbons everywhere in this room. He pulled out the ribbon blocking the window and the sun shone in for an instant. The light got bigger and bigger. Finally, he woke up. This long and fantastic journey was just a dream. He fell into thinking, and after a while he got up and opened the old window that was dusty.
Unit8 Time . Addiction . Technology
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Unit8 Time . Addiction . Technology

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