http://www.slashgear.com/we-need-to-talk-29116634/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/we-need-to-talk-29116634/#comment-74473 peet Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:46:18 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116634#comment-74473 It says a lot about the addictive nature of it and how we can make what used to be fun totally unmemorable via a need for a “fix, hoping to find something more entertaining then the people around us or under the business guise of trying to be busy. especially when around superiors. I’ve seen it in corporations as a competition: who will keep “working”as late as possible or during meals or driving. But it really didn’t start with smartphones. I’ve been put on hold before while standing in front of a service desk, so they could answer a landline. They’re more afraid to lose the customer on the phone, then the person in front of them. Smartphones just make it more pervasive.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/we-need-to-talk-29116634/#comment-74435 DigDug Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:40:31 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116634#comment-74435 don’t for get attorneys, constantly having to deal with one emergency or another

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