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Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us

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A Pacific University research study of 36 participants found significant differences in irritation or burning of the eyes, tearing, or watery eyes, dry eyes, and tired eyes, that were each improved by amber colored lenses versus placebo lenses, [10] but in a follow-up study in 2008, the same team was not able to reproduce the results of the first study. A shrewdly argued jeremiad against the digerati effort to dethrone cultural and political gatekeepers and replace experts with ‘the wisdom of the crowd’. Keen writes with acuity and passion’ . New York Times Asthenopic (eye strain) symptoms in the eye are responsible for much of the severity in CVS. Proper rest to the eye and its muscles is recommended to relieve the associated eye strain. Observations from persons experiencing chronic eye strain have shown that most people who claim to be getting enough sleep are actually not. This, unaware to them, causes the eye strain to build up over a period of time, when if they had obtained seven to eight hours of uninterrupted sleep, their eye muscles would have recovered during the sleep and the strain would not have built up [ citation needed]. The analog age of the great exhibition is now being replaced by the digital age of great exhibitionism.

Healthline has strict sourcing guidelines and relies on peer-reviewed studies, academic research institutions, and medical associations. We avoid using tertiary references. You can learn more about how we ensure our content is accurate and current by reading our editorial policy.Dry eyes because of CVS can also be treated using moisture chamber glasses or humidifier machines. Office spaces with artificially dry air can worsen CVS syndromes, in which case, a desktop or a room humidifier can help the eyes keep a healthy moisture level. Porcar, E.; Pons, A. M.; Lorente, A. (2016). "Visual and ocular effects from the use of flat-panel displays". International Journal of Ophthalmology. 9 (6): 881–885. doi: 10.18240/ijo.2016.06.16. ISSN 2222-3959. PMC 4916147. PMID 27366692. Twenge, Campbell, Aboujaoude, Strauss and Franzen are all correct about this endless loop of great exhibitionism—an attention economy that, not uncoincidentally, combines a libertarian insistence on unrestrained individual freedom with the cult of the social. It's a public exhibition of self-love displayed in an online looking glass that New Atlantis senior editor Christine Rosen identifies as the "new narcissism"32 and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat calls a "desperate adolescent narcissism."33 Everything—from communications, commerce and culture to gaming, government and gambling—is going social. As David Brooks, Douthat's colleague at The Times, adds, "achievement is redefined as the ability to attract attention."34 All we, as individuals, want to do on the network, it seems, is share our reputations, our travel itineraries, our war plans, our professional credentials, our illnesses, our confessions, photographs of our latest meal, our sexual habits of course, even our exact whereabouts with our thousands of online friends. Network society has become a transparent love-in, an orgy of oversharing, an endless digital Summer of Love.

If vertigo or dizziness has been a consistent problem of yours, seek an upper cervical doctor near you for help.Unlike most commentators, Andrew Keen observes the internet as if from a distance. Digital Vertigo may be one of the few books on the subject that, twenty years from now, will be seen to have got it right. Neither blinkered advocate nor hardened cynic, he identifies the good and the bad with a rare human and historical perspective. ” — Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP Andrew Keen has found the off switch for Silicon Valley's reality distortion field. With a cold eye and a cutting wit, he reveals the grandiose claims of our new digital plutocrats to be little more than self-serving cant. Digital Vertigo provides a timely and welcome reminder that having substance is more important than being transparent.” — Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Computer vision syndrome ( CVS) is a condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer or other display device for protracted, uninterrupted periods of time and the eye's muscles being unable to recover from the constant tension required to maintain focus on a close object. Computer workers are often advised to take breaks and look at distant objects. [4] A routinely recommended approach is to consciously blink the eyes every now and then (this helps replenish the tear film) and to look out the window to a distant object or to the sky—doing so provides rest to the ciliary muscles. [5] One of the catch phrases is the "20–20–20 rule": [6] every 20 minutes, focus the eyes on an object 20 feet (6 meters) away for 20 seconds. This basically gives a convenient distance and timeframe for a person to follow the advice from the optometrist and ophthalmologist. Once just a medium for the distribution of impersonal data, the Internet is now a network of companies and technologies designed around social products, platforms and services—transforming it from an impersonal database into a global digital brain publicly broadcasting our relationships, our intentionality and our personal taste. The integration of our personal data—renamed by social media marketers as our "social graph"—into online content is now the central driver of Internet innovation in Reid Hoffman's Web 3.0 age. By enabling our thousands of "friends" to know exactly what we are doing, thinking, reading, watching and buying, today's Web products and services are powering our hypervisible age of great exhibitionism. No wonder, then, that the World Economic Forum describes personal data as a "New Asset Class"89 in the global economy. Remember to take a few minutes of rest after every 30 minutes of staring at your tablets, mobile phones, or computers for long periods. Like Microsoft, every presocial technology company is now trying to surf the Emerald wave. Indeed, there are now so many social business products from large enterprises like IBM (Connections Social Software), Monster.com (the Facebook app Beknown), and Salesforce (Yammer) that one analyst told the Wall Street Journal "it's hard to think of a company that isn't selling enterprise social software now."139 And the corporate world is embracing Web 3.0 technology, too, with "enlightened companies" such as Gatorade, Farmer's Insurance, Domino's Pizza, and Ford investing massively in social media marketing campaigns. "If you want to reach a millennium," wrote one of Ford's social media evangelists in a justification of why they sent a tweeting car across America, "you have to go where they live, and that means online."140Tsz Wing leung; Roger Wing-hong Li; Chea-su Kee (2017). "Blue-Light Filtering Spectacle Lenses: Optical and Clinical Performances". PLOS ONE. 12 (1): e0169114. Bibcode: 2017PLoSO..1269114L. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169114. PMC 5207664. PMID 28045969. It looks like there is a wall of video cubes, like the set of Hollywood Squares," Glaser explained the SocialEyes interface."You can see yourself in one of these squares and then start initiating phone calls to anyone in your network."164 This is the true picture of the social web. When we socialize on SocialEyes, the world becomes a gigantically transparent set of Hollywood Squares and we all become cubes inside its wall.

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