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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005
Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:
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PC: What have I done the first almost 20 years of my life? And I must say, it was not a bad one. Internet: what have I done the first 30+ years of my life?
If somebody does not know how to spend his time and enjoy it without PC and internet, then his life is a really poor mess.
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Yeah addiction to Technology on a whole as an illness is just overrated. :hmm:
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Regarding games and internet, no. German health system and insurers are short off acepting games addiction and internet addiction being added to the catalogue of addictions for whose treatement the insurers will pay. It best compares to "Spielsucht" cumpulsive gambling. The point is that in the pathologic cases, subjects start to show the same symptoms and social downfalls like "real" addicts to gambling, substance abuse, etc.
Technology as a whole can'T be deleted from the present, but I am sure that it is massively overrated, yes.
However, a PC in the household is fun, and practical, no doubt. It is not as worse than people startzing their car just to drive those three hundred meters to the baker, and return. That is not just a massive increase in fuel, since the engine never gets warm, it also is an increase is wear and tear by a factor of around 7 for the same reason (says Germany's and the world biggest autopmobile club ADAC). but most important: driving a car for 300m in itself is - idiotic. - so when there is a PC, don'T feel bad when you make pragmatic use of it - but don'T cry, if there is none (when I visit friedns for a couple of days, for example, I miss neither the PC nor any forum nor any games a bit). I myself totally reject to depend on computers in my pirvate life. All the important mail I do not via the web, but paper post. All important banking issues I do manually. Loosing my database of items, codes, texts and bilances and all their backups as well wouödn'T hurt me a bit - and that is how it should be.