Smartphones: It’s Time to Confront Our Global Addiction | Dr. Justin Romano | TEDxOmaha

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1. Watch this vid again but replace the word phone with work.

2. 👨🏿‍💻🍿

3. Apple , Musk and Zuckerberg have won.

4. 14:50 Unfortunately government privacy laws prevent data from actually being useful in large scale research. I genuinely think that we need to re-think our global obsession with privacy and allow anonymised data to be used by researchers.

5. Smartphones are like cigarettes on steroids, basically everywhere I go to I see people on them non-stop.

6. You'd greatly benefit from exploring "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blazel on this matter. It left a significant impression on me.

7. This guy spitting the truth 👍

8. I’m jacking it in at midnight for the month of October. If I’m happier on November 1st I’ll stay away from it.

9. The biggest pandamic is mankind

10. I like the mobile phone movement. If 30% takes the simcard out of the smartphone and put it in a old fashioned mobile phone we buy, we won't be forced to let our smartphone become our identity. Although they try to have 100% of the people having a smartphone worldwide.
    The smartphone can still be used for photos, videos, music etc.

11. I checked my phone five times during this talk.

12. This is why I am actually grateful to Apple for the release of their Watch. I can leave my house without my phone, and it still be able to access the necessities, like my wallet, health status and emergencies. More minimalist technology is what we need in our lives, beneficial and in the background. Only to support our lives, not control it.

13. Taking my kids to school in the morning, every kid waiting for the school bus have their faces in their phones. The world is in serious trouble.

14. It didn’t come out in 2007. Try 2000 or so. BlackBerry started it all

15. I m gonna buy a flip phone!

16. Dr. Justin, you're a wonderful speaker. Thank you for raising awareness of this topic.

17. We definately have to make tech companies accountable

18. I believe people who are addicted to the phone also want instant gratification. It would be difficult for them to watch this talk in a single way. No doubt why this talk has very few views.

19. The giggle at 1:30 🤡

20. I totally agree, but there are few things hard to deal in this case, first it is biiiiig business meaning somebody making big 💰 out of it, it is also perfect tool for brainwashing, for surveillance of people, especially targeting youth, and finally this is probably without a doubt biggest step in human evolution, today in your hand and tomorrow inside your body, they say it will make our life better even i think we will pay high price, i hope that somehow we will wakeup and fight because future looks dark in this case

21. He starta off with a bunch of made up statistics thrown in here in a Biden whisper voice. Ill pass

22. There is an addiction to the motor car, and technology there is no chance to stop this.

23. Me watching on my smartphone: Yeah, yeah

24. Well done 👌👌👌

25. Zombies on the Phone. Zombies on the Phone. Into this world were thrown. Into this world were born.

26. Love this video. Made it a favourite and sharing it with everyone I know. For those in the thralls of addiction, may I suggest a course of action. Wait until your vacation and travel somewhere nice. Leave emergency number for work and only check that at night. Leave all Smartphones, Tables, Laptops in Hotel Room. DO NOT LOOK AT THEM. The first two or three days are going to be rough, but by the end of the week you are going to feel totally liberated. The addiction is real folks. The narrator is even understating the problem. It is destroying us.

27. Hi my life has become unmanageable because of my overuse of my phone!

28. Star Trek The next generation episode "The Game" in 1987 had the same exact scenario of a addictive device that looked exactly like a cell phone in one of their shows.
    In today's world Addicts stop their drug use abruptly when their cell phone battery Dies and run to charge it first. Apple Corporation makes the Cartel look like children. Some cell phone junkies walk in front of fast moving cars and care less about getting hit by a car than taking their eyes off the phone. According to a study losing a cell phone is as stressfull than going to jail or losing a loved one!

29. Yh I suffer from this addiction

30. Watching this and seeing it only has 31,000 views kind of backs the concept that no one wants to face this addiction or talk about it because we are almost all dealing with it in some way.

31. All so true and I’m watching this video on my smart phone.

32. phone addiction literally ruined my real life.

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