Do we work more due to technologies that should have reduced our work?
Is frustration higher due to modern transparency?
Is the “always-available” mentality killing our need to calm down?
Can the theory of “lifelong learning” lead to feelings like “being never good enough”?
My answer to all your questions is "YES" ! CRI or Computer Related Illnesses are a known fact. Now since we have all innovative technologies in our pocket, we are always on our toes to comply, life long learning may be a reason to never let us really rest it out without any ties. Competition, wish to excel, frustration if that doesnt happen, all , I think are silent killers.
Thank you so much for your answer Jaya! Do you also have an opinion if we could change technology in any way so that these "side effects" can be disminued or put into reverse (= positive) effects? Maybe Technology is good, not good and not good enough all at the same time and just needs some people fixing the "social buggs". What do you think?
Nowadays, many people are stressed or disconcentrated because they are always "online". But we have a choice if we check our mails every 3 minutes or not. You can control most of the notifications you get from e.g. your smartphone and reduce your stress level in this way.
Regarding "lifelong learning": I see this as a very positive thing. If I knew my job would be the same until the end of my life, I might get bored after 10 or 20 years. Everybody has to learn new things during his working life. This is not such a new development.
We need some strategies to learn coping with innovative Technologies. It is essential to understand what is "killing" us, as you said, to know how to reacht.
Education to the use of new technologies could be a way.
Related to this I'm looking for a scale for Technostress, do you know any?
Technology does reduce our work in that sense of the word that it increases workforce productivity. But increasing productivity only ensures that one produces more, and not that he or she works less.
Obviously technology itself, being in its essence artificial Nature, has strong impact on the life of individuals and on society as a whole. It has health effects, forms dependencies, transforms behavior etc. Some of these negative effects may be unpredictable, discover themselves only in the long term etc. and thus present difficulties for society to cope with them even if the society will.
One thing is for sure - so far as the criterion for introducing technology is maximizing private profit and not society's benefit, society will never truly succeed in dealing with its dangerous outcomes.
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