Title: Is technology bad for us? | Internet | The Guardian
Headings: Is technology bad for us?
The Eva Wiseman column Internet
Is technology bad for us?
Eva Wiseman

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Sun 13 Oct 2013 02.07 EDT
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T he news I hate the most is the news about how technology is killing us. Killing our libido, killing our friendships, our marriages, killing our children in their beds. I hate news about how social networks are halting our emotional development, how Facebook is quicksand, a swamp of insecurity. How our phones are clean windows into lonely deaths. How they make us worse. I don't hate this news because it's false, necessarily – I hate it because it makes everybody fear the inevitable, and I hate it because the only answer it offers to these doomsday predictions is to "switch it off". Switch it off and look outside, to the fields, to the Tesco bags hooked on branches, to the sky, grey with promise. Switch it off and look into the real world.