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[Jasmine0316]

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Time：第 304 次例會，2015年3月14日（週六）下午2:30~5:30
Place：
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Agenda
14:30~15:30 Session One
15:30~15:50 Speech Session
15:50~16:00 Change Group and then Break Time
16:00~17:15 Session Two
17:15~17:30 Happy Time

Host: Harris
Assistant Host:

Topic:
Is Technology Helping or Hurting Your Relationships?
Source:
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/technology ... tionships/

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Venue:台中市南屯區大業路182號 Mos Burger
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Questions:
1. How much time do you spend on the Internet (or on you smart phone) per day? What impact can technology have on our interpersonal relationships? Can technology bring us closer?

2. Do you check your phone frequently? While your phone vibrating, do you need to check it immediately, otherwise you would feel uncomfortable or unsafe? Are you kidnapped by your phone?

3. When Harris travelled to Europe, the tour guide told him that their coffee shops seldom offer free WIFI to customers-- because they think you come here to have a good time with your friends, not to waste time on surfing the Internet. Do you agree or disagree? However, sometimes people in Taiwan don’t have a conversation with each other while having dinner with their friends, because all of them are using their phones. Does this situation happen to you? How do you deal with it usually?

4. In this article, we can see technology really give us a lot of convenience. But, nowadays, many people have to be “on call” 24-7 (including off-duty periods and vacation time). Imagine your friends or family, enjoying hanging out with you, have to go back to work right away because of an urgent call. How would you feel and what are you going to do? What if you were the one receiving the unexpected, urgent call from your boss? Do you have any strategy to avoid this situation?

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjBG24ppPds Please share your comments after watching this video.


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[Jasmine0316]

Dear Taichung Happiers,

Officially, at the Altar…………… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSkT5XykJzo !

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity", the beloved physicist Albert Einstein had sighed long before our compulsive affection for internet and social media. The more and more prevalent scene in the early 21st Century shows modern technology devices baby-sitting not only babies but also grandparents. While we are wondering “What’s next”, our host Harris is giving us an inquiring look: IS TECHNOLOGY HELPING OR HURTING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?

Professor Steve Pinker thinks of the advantage: “As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.” On the other hand, what worries us most is the senseless compulsion. With an inquisitive mind, Professor Zoë Chance examined and explained how human needs (Significance, Certainty, Uncertainty, Connection and Growth) make technology devices and some behaviors so addictive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfiKav9fcQ

Social media scholar Danah Boyd analyzed what causes the complication of social media addiction. “Teen ‘addiction’ to social media is a new extension of typical human engagement. Their use of social media as their primary site of sociality is most often a byproduct of cultural dynamics that have nothing to do with technology, including parental restrictions and highly scheduled lives. Teens turn to, and are obsessed with whichever environment allows them to connect to friends. Most teens aren't addicted to social media; if anything, they're addicted to each other.” Check out this short film “Connected” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUY3H741eKE , which perfectly casts light on the point.

From “The Little Prince” (By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."
"To establish ties?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”

What was your social network when you were a kid? This beautiful story Joone is a well illustrated reminder of our relationship with nature and family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd2ZhD2PHCE Who and what are truly present in our lives? Calling for our accurate prioritization—humanity, this visual depiction steals our hearts without any technology implication.

Look on the bright side and use the powerful technology to encourage compassion and create an appreciative society. Listen to your family and friends, who are saying “Count On Me”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbAUzcuvVYc





With Gratitude,
Jasmine

[Kevin01]

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