Today Friends have informed me that my name appeared on the newspaper Republic (both paper and online) in respect of an article on "Diet Technology" . The friend Vera Schiavazzi journalist yesterday asked for e-mail from my point of view on an issue presented in a piece of the Wall Street Journal about the diet of the excessive dependence on technology that would afflict us all.
The advantage of an interview letters is that you can literally bring the words used, not to contradict the journalist, but to explain yourself with friends. So this is what I aim to accomplish by the cloning of the original message I sent to Vera, who perhaps can even be a little added value to the debate. Here it is:
" The scenario is very far from that of the average Italian family and I would say that even if we exclude the average American middle class metro.
Statistics Nielsen are drugged by their objectives, even before that by using sources that are certainly not those of the real country for much closer to the film Eastwood (to fit in your average high). In Italy things are much different.
professional standpoint I can wear two garments that correspond to two activities that look at the issue from as many observers as it were complementary: the expert management and knowledge sharing in organizations or as a psychotherapist who deals with addictions of various manner.
As an expert in knowledge sharing and hence access to technological learning and organizational communication, I tell you that the desirable goal would be a certain naturalness and "cunning" in the use of new technologies, but is almost never the case. We have seen a gradual change at all where people with the word "computer" identifies multiple platforms that use them. Yesterday they did not know and refused to use them today are like Pavlov's dogs or pigeons Skinner adopting uncritical routine behaviors induced by technology managers to integrate the tools demotivated them closer to human behavior. Simply put, employees and managers are the true ends of the machine and not the other way and authority in organizations has a style that ends up replicating to produce companies repetitive and thus lack of competitiveness.
For example, the success of Apple's Jobs not so much intelligence, but by the stupidity of its competitors, incapable of a thought that does not come out by the stencil. Decades of success of the model-made stencil unable to traditional patterns of production. Those of his grandfather.
Hence the first corollary: The best way to make intelligent employees is to switch off the computer and let him take up the hoe and send them to grow vegetables business (in any subject can apply the metaphor), then grain of salt, bring them back to the machines. For example, today the average worker is more computationally ignorant healthy and therefore more intelligent (who does not have health as a reference I do not consider to be intelligent in the sense that I give in person at the end) of the employee and much of the entry and middle level managers.
New technologies lead to a thought-reflex arc. The paradox is that passes for criticism. Rarely depart from a constructive process, a project, how they wanted the fathers of the personal computer, from Wiener to Engelbart.
The blame for this, however, lies not in technology but in the will. The alternative to enterprise platforms for cloning, such as ERP (SAP and one for all) that lead back to the organizational sciences 40 years by the developments of the '80s and '90s were not the only possible ways available to introduce digital technology in the company. Typically there were two paths: that of the rigid classification models with high technological costs incurred by the cutbacks in organic brains, and that the use of information technology to empower people through these can make more (and not given then assume that they have some real purpose in the lead). The serious problem is that the pedagogy of the Anglo-Saxon forms adopted in primary schools is absolutely the worst and pervasive imprint of a reasoning and learning based on the conditioned reflex uncritical. The design technology is the logical consequence of a manipulation (By tool, tool, something ...) of the person.
Today we can say that "we have more resources and have less motivation to use them."
changing shirts, now I speak as a psychotherapist.
is true, there is a phenomenon of dependence on technology, but - attention - not by computer, and if we take the phone use, even from your smartphone.
is addicted to online games, from Facebook, from Messenger, SMS ... For many consumers, the Internet and Google did not even enter the address on the appropriate field when this is obvious. If I asked for a boy to search the web Google does not surprise me that the Google search bar (which for him is the Internet) to write the word "Google" for "go to Google." The technology is transparent: I'm on Facebook, what does access the PC? I'm on Messenger! I'm not on the phone, I hear Samantha. I have not turned on the TV, I do not lose the last episode of Sex and the City.
smartphones make a difference because then you're always there, including TV. The motivation to buy is not to use Wikipedia, since that of being ALLWAYS ON.
So the funny scenes described in the WSJ are not forms of dependence on technology, but addiction mangers of bourgeois life of the city, with all their diseases, loneliness, desire, anonymity ...
They open at this two ways: the detoxification and choice.
The first day would not be that a shift of dependence from one side of the instruments of influence. The day's diet should include television and radio should be turned off, unplug phones, close the shopping malls and so on. Feasible if you live in a mountain hut buried in snow, and certainly not a resident of New York, but neither of Good Vagienna.
The other way is to use technologies such as what I call the "healthy smoker". Consume any substance is potentially harmful. Smoking is one of them. However, there are two types of smokers: there are those who "make cigarette smoking" and that in extreme cases - which was not rare - they have two or three cigarettes at once (one in hand, one in the ashtray, and the other in the mouth) and then do not even know to be smoking, then there are those who choose to smoke "just one cigarette there" that could even baptize Casimira both have found, as did John Belushi in "Call Eagle" with the latest package in the high mountains. When you use the computer to do just and only "that action there," then you can not consider yourself "Addicted" to technology.
The technology addiction is a form of addiction as a disease from another person in a society that has made the dependence on the lifestyle and economy to the point of identification with the concept of welfare ("we must return to buy to exorcise the crisis "and then we have to live three lives to keep all the" things "that we filled the homes and lives). Curious that experts tend to differentiate between what is addiction, dependency and addiction in general, beyond the usually more devastating consequences.
The demand for treatment for addiction to technology is beginning to arrive the study of psychotherapy. There are therapists that if they make sly experts, some less successful trying to emerge as almost always behind this request, which most of the time he appointed his son as a patient, there is a way of life that hold water the parties and that they try to exorcise the diagnosis of an Internet Addiction as another.
There is a third way, what I think the most intelligent, the most practicable and with more food for growth, but also one that requires greater autonomy and intelligence (the famous features of the contemporary urban atrophied). It is the irony. That of Socrates, of course, but also that of Dilbert, that of manager who looks around with his BlackBerry has become the electrode with which the company gives him the shakes even at dinner time but when he realizes it or gives it to his son off with the explicit intent to do him a spite, well aware that these loans will end up in the first puddle by mistake or if it will rub on the bus. Only the irony allows us to really unplug and devote garlic, olive oil and red pepper, because if these things ghostly take them too seriously, despite ourselves we end up transforming them into what they are not: the reality .
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