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- Computer and Televison Addiction
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- By Parell-axe of Alienation
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- In a world of rapidly advancing
- knowledge into the electronical envir-
- onment, we find ourselves amongst a
- slight, but noticable problem.
- The problem as I am sure you are
- aware is that of people sitting in
- front of screens either watching
- people or looking at Sprites and
- Bobs wizzing around the screen at high
- speeds.
- Something that you cannot resist
- yourself from doing is called an
- addiction. In this case it is
- TELEVISION and COMPUTER ADDICTION.
- Most of us just sit in front of our
- Amiga`s to play games, some sit to
- watch demo`s, some use utilities to
- achieve certain goals and some use
- their Amiga`s to write tremendous
- amounts of code so that other people
- can see what they are capable doing
- within an assembler. Whatever the
- reason is, that you sit in front of
- your Amiga, some of us are aware that
- we are unable to pull ourselves away
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- from this almighty machine, and some
- people think that addiction does not
- exist. Well it does!!!!
- About 50 per cent of the people who
- own a computer use it at least one
- hour a day. 30 per cent use their
- computers at least Two and-a-half
- hours a day and 20 per cent use their
- computer more that 3 hours-a day. This
- means that an average person out of
- the 50 per cent group who has a
- computer from the age of 7 (lets say
- he`s got an Atari....R.I.P) spends 336
- hours or 14 DAYS in front of his
- computer per year. So by the time he
- is 40 he would have spent 11088 hours
- or 462 days or 1 year and 97 days of
- his life staring despondently at a
- screen of some sort. WOW!!!
- With computers it`s mainly the same
- things you see, demos,utilities, games
- but television is a much bigger threat
- to the way that we live. With the
- introduction of Cable and Satellite
- TV we now have the option of many more
- channels and a much wider option of
- what we watch. You now have the option
- to see Opera, Sport, Continuous Films,
- Non stop Music and you can even order
- shopping through the T.V. So it`s no
- wonder that we are becoming more
- dependant on the square screen in the
- corner of our living rooms.
- Since we can watch sport instead of
- participating in it and we can get
- shopping instead of going out to the
- shops to get it, we are using less and
- less energy.In turn this unused energy
- is stored as fatty deposits aroung the
- walls of the arteries. If one of these
- arteries is block or made smaller by
- these deposits, a number of hazardous
- effects can arise. e.g Heart Disease
- or even Heart Attacks.
- Televisions also give off minute
- amounts of radiation, and over the
- years these minute pieces of radiation
- can amount into enough to start a
- chain reaction in the cancer cells
- within each human`s body. So what it
- really means is that if you watch too
- much T.V or use computers too much,you
- will either turn into a mass of fat or
- you will eventually become a fleshless
- computer user as you begin to rot away
- as a result of over using your
- fingertips and under using your brain
- and muscles for something more
- strenuous like sport.
- I use my computer well over 5 hours
- a day and I couldn`t careless if I rot
- away as a result of using my beloved
- Amiga too much, at least I`ll rot away
- doing something that I enjoy. So my
- advice to all you computer and tele-
- addicts out there is......Sod everyone
- else....Do what you want to do and If
- they don`t like it...Tell them to suck
- on it.
-
- If you want to contact ALIENATION then
- write to:
-
- 233 Heronswood Road
- Welwyn Garden City
- Herts Or Phone
- AL7 3JH (0707) 326547.
- ENGLAND Ask for Phil
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- CODERS, GRAPHICS ARTISTS, MUSICIANS
- SWAPPERS NEEDED.
-
- Kreator - Thanks Phil for that article
- Sorry, it arrived too late for Dave to
- include it in the paper mag.
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