Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The economist: intelligent mobile phone user is slavery

1963 years of The "Servant" (The Servant) is a memorable movie. The film mercilessly analyses Dirk bo Gardner (Dirk Bogarde) play the sinister man, and James Fox (James Fox) play the romantic of the relationship between the master. Man found the master's weaknesses, play the upside of his valet game: the end of the story, and a flattering fox sincerely serve up a proud bo fine heart. The movie is flay the Harold Macmillan (Harold Macmillan) under the rule of the British class structure. But today to review the film, it is hard to imagine the other a disturbing relationship between people and their workplace-smart cellphone.
Intelligent equipment is very useful, they will the global information gathering in our fingertips. They allow people to work at home, and not on a daily and sending out behind the stranger together crowded subway. Want to dominate the work flexible time fathers are concerned, this is huge in the Gospel. Smart phones and tablet computers can improve efficiency, and help people make full use of waiting in line to buy coffee that originally may be a waste of leisure time. They even can create an illusion, let a sloth look like in stay up late work, specific methods is through the set, 1:00 a.m. in sent an E-mail.
But for most people, your servant has become master. Not long ago, only doctors need to be available. But now, all is in the state of the standby alert. The boss will be without violation of the employees time to rest. Although occasionally there in the family will be brought to the office, but the number is far from the work of the family of harassment. Originally the sane person would have kept view smart phones, even had a drink of water will not miss all the time. After morning rises, first thing and late before one last thing, into E-mail.
Reason explore
Smart phones addictive are one reason. Brand marketing experts Collins st Martin's dragon (Martin Lindstrom) had once did an experiment to find ten to most impact of voice. He found that mobile phone ranked third vibration, after Intel (the Po) advertising music and the laugh of a baby. Blackberry (the Po) and iPhone with numerous advantages of relentlessly attract us. No matter when, as long as you check the flash squares, it is very likely to see the customer or the boss E-mail message, at least they will see a Nigerian scam from email: as long as you ask him to provide bank information, can give you $1 million. Smartphone has become the best excuse to delay our work. How many people dare to say, because they never escape from more work and delete mail?
Hyperlinks (hyperconnectivity) intensifies the modern office area of the most destructive some trends: the uncertainty of the downturn (as the organization give up bureaucracy, and turned to the flexible organizational structure development), the rise of the global supply chain and the universal praise highly of flexibility. Smart cellphone market makes managers easily in the final seconds to change his mind: for example, in the mail to subordinates at 11 bit, let their second day must fly Pittsburgh. With these disgusting equipment, a time zone of managers can easily destroy another time zone people dream.
The staff found that work and the line between work and more vague, and the real work to do not let a person with pure idle down and arrangement of unnecessary work between, also it is difficult to distinguish. Officers also feel doppelganger in two places at once: not only in normal working hours for all kinds of meetings, a class had to deal with a lot of email and information.
All these people on the workplace of the marriage and mental health, not even on the enterprise have an impact. When the boss may change your mind at the last minute, it is hard to make plans for the future. Have a lot of research proved a common sense: if not continue to be interrupted, people's thinking more deeply.
solutions
How to don't be smart phones bother? How can enslaved cases benefit from it? "The Numbers on a diet" is a feasible scheme. As the spread of junk food to force people to comply with more strict dietary habit, the spread of garbage information for the same people to obey the more strict browsing habits. Before the information can let us not to regain a civilization feeling; Weekend or not to send a text message on Thursday can let iPhone understand, and who is the true masters.
But the problem is, unless you live in a desert island or lake bottom, otherwise this method is hard to work. In a forthcoming new book and intelligent mobile phone of Sleeping (Sleeping with Your Smartphone), harvard business school professor Leslie · er los (Leslie Perlow) think, for most people, to break the habit of standby all day, the only way is to be together, rather than split asunder.
Her through a story to tell people: as one of the world's busiest organization, the Boston consulting group is how to better manage "hyperlinks". The company launched a series of rules, detailed the staff when you can not stand by, and encourage them to achieve this. Many powerful consultant at first laughed at this way-they think, only the cowardly talent will turn off smart phones. But in the end, by reducing staff to overdraw degrees, the company's work efficiency instead to be promoted.
The copper los proposal shall get attention. As smart phones more and more intelligent, together with the young digital generation come into the workplace, hyperlinks problems can only is deteriorating. People will be more life to the care of smart phones, like the fox will more and more life to a Po fine heart do the same: now, you can download personal assistant (such as apple Siri), let it tell you the schedule, also can use virtual personal trainer to urge you to exercise more. British telecom regulator Ofcom said that more than 60% of adolescents intelligent mobile phone users to this kind of equipment "very addictive", the proportion of adults about 37%.
The faster the smart phone, the attraction of the application, have more users and also more addictive. Between husband and wife to get out of the difficulty, can directly to the phone and threw it out of the window or the inside of the toilet. But in the final analysis, for all smart phones from time to time out of bondage, only more intelligent than a smart  cellphone, the company can do it.

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