The Seventh Kingdom: Is Technology Addiction Real Jan. 2015 | Page 22

CURRENT

PAST

ADVANTAGE/DISADVANTAGE OF PAST
COMMUNICATION

Social Media Physical Conversation
SMS/Emails
Phone Calls
Video Calls

Letters
Physical Conversation
Physical Conversation

Physical Conversation = more emotion, cannot be
anywhere in the world,
Letters = more connection, not instant
Physical Conversation = more emotion
Physical Conversation = more emotion

ENTERTAINMENT
Video
Games
Videos
Music

Sports/Board Games

Sports/Board Games = more emotion

Lives shows
Live bands

Lives shows = more emotion, not instant/on demand
Live bands = more emotion, not instant/on demand

BUSINESS
Advertising

Posters

Medical

Initiative

Military

Posters = not environmentally friendly, not instant updates,
harder access
Initiative = Learn more as a person, more prone to human
error more emotion
,
Initiative = Learn more as a person, more prone to human
error more emotion
,

Initiative

INFORMATION
Shopping
Navigation
Organisation
Blogging
News
Pictures

Physical shopping

Physical shopping = No impulse buying, more connected,
easier to gauge integrity
Maps
Maps = Learn more as a person, more prone to human
error
Initiative
Initiative = increases memory, less reliant
Diaries/Journals
Diaries/Journals = hard to reach large audience, physical
copy gives connection between author and reader
Newspapers
Newspapers = not environmentally friendly, not instant
updates, harder access, clutter
Photographs/Live witness Photographs/Live witness = more emotion, connected to
subject, harder to access

PAST PROS
More Emotion/connection
Learn more as a person
Easier to gauge integrity

7

CHAPTER ONE: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

The link between the advantages
for using past technology relate to
improving personal development.
However the advantage of present
,
over past is the idea that present
technology enables people to live
easier and more comfortable lives.

CONS PAST
Not on demand
Not environmentally friendly
Prone to human error