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Several links on information overload
The Times has been giving this good coverage...
• Drivers and legislators dismiss cellphone risks
• U.S. withheld data on risks of distracted driving
Studies show that drivers who talk on cellphones are four times more likely to be in a crash and drive just as erratically as people with an 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level. ...The tech industry is our drug dealer, feeding the intense social and economic pressure to stay constantly in touch with employers, colleagues, friends and family.
It also explains why Christopher Hill, a 21-year-old from Oklahoma who killed a woman last September when he ran a red light while on his cellphone and rammed into her S.U.V., tried to keep dialing and driving with a headset his mother gave him two months after the accident.
• Cabbies stay on their phones despite ban
...and see also Two paths to take in the digital world, which compares the problems with constant texting (especially for teenagers) vs. a different path to happiness.
As always, more on the topic in Bit Literacy.
