When Technology Becomes Creepy

 

It's NOT debatable, BIG PICTURES are far different from small framed ones.  Let's NOT look farther down than the wide-screen TV technologies that now feature  OLED [Organic Light Emitting Diode]  and QLED [Quantum Dot LED]. More than just the superficial, WHAT seems scary are recent researches proving the parallellism between this significant progression of TV technology along the course of drug addiction.  Surely, you'll be shocked in disbelief with this purported parallelism drawn by those researches.  This is WHEN TECHNOLOGY BECOMES CREEPY❌❌❌

Unfortunately, most of us [and that includes me till now] wrongly assume that confusions between mediated experience and real life are rare and as such, unimportant.  BUT the history of TV technology has been a continuous evolution toward ever more intense stimulation.  The amount of data coming into and through our eyes, ears and brain WHILE we watch TV has been constantly escalating💥💥💥

In that NOT so distant past, viewers gathered in the living room to watch a tiny black-and-white screen, sometimes enlarged by a distorting magnifying glass.  Small thought it was, it was a large increase over the information that had been coming into the ears alone by way of radio.  Radio required its audience to imagine WHAT the Lone Ranger might look like.  YES, TV eliminated that need.  Viewers could now see WHAT he 'really' looked like.  OR at least WHAT he looked like in black and white.  Viewers still had to imagine WHAT he and his sidekick Tonto, and the sunsets they rode into, would look like in color💧💧💧

Some critics have focused their ire on the increased energy that the advanced TV technologies require, the chemicals that make their brilliant pictures.  WHAT is scary are the psychological, emotional, social and even neurological effects these big-screen high definition TVs have, especially on the development of children and adolescents as researches showed that those 'BIG PICTURES' may turn up the volume on WHATEVER emotional responses would have been experienced with a standard representation.  Those studies showed that as our brains evolved in a world with no such thing as modern media, we tend to respond to TV as IF WHAT is going on behind the screen is the real thing.  The parallelism here is drawn between TV and fast food as both are tagged as 'supernormal stimuli' and even the super-sized HDTV is the 'supersized me'💚💛💜

Our takeaway:  WHAT seems interesting are recent studies that showed the brains of children watching TV showed the sort of activity associated with 'FIGHT or FLIGHT' threat responses.  There was also activity in the parts of the brain normally associated with imitation.  Alarming is the evidence showing that children were 'actively processing' the video violence and storing those aggressive scripts in an area of the brain that serves as a 'ready file' for memories that return in a flash and in the end, the child is expected to behave more aggressively.  Scarier is the conclusion that our brains CAN'T distinguish between fantasy and real violence.  WHEN TECHNOLOGY BECOMES CREEPY😡😡😡