Which, as we all know, is exactly how everyone uses their phone (and if you're reading this at work on a desktop screen, you may want to lean a little further back from that display).Īccording to the Vision Council, 80% of American adults are using digital devices for more than two hours per day, along with an additional 67% that use two devices or more at the same time. While the tech in a smartphone display is no worse for you than a television screen or a billboard in Time Square, the problem is that you use them for a long period of time at such a close distance. For one thing, the use of smartphones for multiple hours at a time has significantly changed the way our eyes function on a day-to-day basis. Technology's increasing presence in our lives could be having a dramatically negative effect on our eyesight. And the negative effects of technology are already visible in our bodies today.
Technology has become part of everyday life at such a staggering pace that our bodies are forced to play catch-up in mere years rather than centuries. Put simply, your body wasn't meant to endure these previously non-existent activities. And, the positions your body contorts into in order to utilize modern technology could be damaging it. Due to a daily grind that sees us sat at a desk through a working day, staring at a smartphone screen on our commute, then binge-watching Netflix with our evenings, we're putting all sorts of tech-driven strain on ourselves.
From running cross-country, to swimming across rivers, to actually doing a pull-up correctly, we are built to test our physical limits.īut most of us…don't get to. The human body has evolved over thousands of years to accomplish a vast array of unimaginable feats. We've dug through all the research, noted all the ailments and possible causes, and spoken to health experts to get to the bottom of whether technology is really all that bad for you.