Eletronic Immersion

Eletronic Immersion; harmful or helpful?

Everyday people are working on what could possibly be a great new invention that can help the public. There so many new forms of ‘help’ in the form of electronic devices that are available to the public, the biggest and most successful being the mobile phone and laptops/computers.

In the past phones were used simply for making and receiving calls, now you can do almost anything that you can do on a computer or a mobile phone, you can use the internet, record yourself, upload music, play games ect. Because of this a mobile phone can be labelled as a electronic immersion as it combines a telephone with a computer (because of the internet and writing programmes) as well as a games console and a camera and/or video camera.

Many inventions and upgrade of technology are very helpful and benefit people every day. In one day for example a person may use their phone as an alarm to wake them up in the morning, they could check the weather on their phone rather than watching the television, listen to their own choice of music rather than the radio on their way to work, as well as emailing the boss if late to work or stuck in traffic; the list of things different technologies that all roll into one (the mobile phone) is immense.

But do these wonderful inventions help us or just make us lazy? Psychologist Marcus Zumbera researched whether doing online food shopping made people generally more lazy or actually helped them, it was discovered that food shopping online was a great benefit to the elderly or those with disabilities however many fit, healthy and able bodied people were choosing the ‘lazier’ option, Zumbera states that his later research will compare statics with the levels of obesity since the creation of online fast food purchase. This will enable us to see if this idea of which is a luxury to us in turn harms or helps.