Silicon Valley worries about addiction to devices

Interesting article in today's New York Times confirming the negative side of our addiction to technology - "interactive gadgets could create a persistent sense of emergency by setting off stress systems in the brain -- a view that is becoming more widely accepted...It's this basic cultural recognition that people have a pathological relationship with their devices.....people feel not just addicted, but trapped."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/technology/silicon-valley-worries-about-addiction-to-devices.html?pagewanted=all  


Below is an earlier NYT article about the price we pay for this addiction to technology:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?pagewanted=all

Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement — a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored.