Technology & Gadget Addiction Same as TV Addiction of 60s

“Computers are such an integral part of our life that in a certain sense we’re all addicted to the technology,” he says. “But we’re ‘addicted’ in the same way that we’re ‘addicted’ to automobiles.

“Parents were worried in the ’60s about their kids being addicted to television; now they’re worried about their kids being addicted to their computer screens,” Miller says. CNN.

A survey conducted late last year by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine found that more than one out of every eight users of the Internet in the United States reported having at least one of these and other possible signs of “problematic Internet use.” Almost 6 percent, for example, said that “their relationships suffered” as a result of their overuse of the Internet.