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I just read a rumor that the new Galaxy phone has a "Smart Pause" feature so that when your eyes no longer look at the screen it will dim, pause what you are doing, then resume once you look back at it again.

My response: Gross. That is so unbelievably unnecessary (much like a lot of the things we own and feel we "need") and incredibly lazy. We are gluttons for technology that take away our humanity. Do you really think it is cool to control things with your eyes? Do you really want to be like Stephen Hawking confined to a wheel chair because you can't move and the only way you can communicate is by moving your eyes? Because with how lazy our society has gotten and our ever growing dependence on technology it won't take long until we start suffering from muscle atrophy (due to laziness and lack of exercise) and become prisoners within our own bodies where our only option will be to use our "sweet smart phones" and control them with our eyes to get around and communicate!

Stop complaining about taking a freaking flight of stairs, stop being connected to everything at all times, start to re-learn the importance of physical activity, physical social environments, and educate yourself on how to read a map or learn a useful trade that can help you become less dependent on someone or something else. The way we have become classically conditioned to respond to the sounds or vibrations of our phones is frightening. We are like Pavlov and his dogs!

Ugghhhh!!

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