10 tipos de problemas
Leon Bambrick, de Secret Geek recoje una lista de problemas a los que se enfrenta tu cerebro: Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble. Por ejemplo:
Increasing expectations
Our standards increase to swallow most productivity gains.
For example, prior to the 1950’s, there were no washing machines, and the avg. household spent 6 hours per week washing clothes. The invention of the common domestic washing machine was proclaimed to be a great liberator… but the net effect today? We continue to spend 6 hours per week washing clothes, only we now do 10 times as much washing. i.e we have cleaner clothes & more of them — but we’re still just as much a slave of our tasks.
Similarly, producing a document today in Word 11 takes just as much time as it did in WordPerfect 1.1 — the output should be considerably nicer, but then again, the reader is expecting a nicer output. So what did we gain exactly?
Sociopathic social overload
Here’s an example from a friend of mine. He described how his son was sitting on the couch, playing with his Nintendo DS, when he was supposed to be taking the dog for a walk. Nothing too unusual there… except, he was playing Nintendogs (a virtual pet simulation) in which he’d created a virtual dog based on his real dog. His real life pet ended up being returned to the pound. Seriosly. I think that’s a sign of something…
Lo del niño suena un poco a leyenda urbana, pero bueno :)