I heard two colleagues talk about blackberries on Friday; they talked about addiction, changes they bring into our lives and the stress you have checking for mail even in the evening or on weekend.
I think this is not something imposed on us by Blackberry or other mobile email technologies, this is an expression of how we look at life: Are there a lot of dangerous, bothersome, annoying things out there? Are we afraid of what is waiting for us?
Or are we curious for life, are we looking foreward to the things to come? A lot of my life is happening digitally that's the way to stay in touch, to share something. And looking at work: I want to get things done, getting information earlier leaves me more time to handle things. So I want to get information...
I can't know everything, I can't care for everything and I can't do everything at a time. But it makes me more comfortable to know that I should do something - even if I can't or don't want to do it right now. True relaxation is not excluding information, it's ignoring it...
And efficiency, as we shold know, is not doing as many things as possible, but doing the right things at the right time (this is, once again, why we need information...).
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