Stressed Out? Blame Bad Technology
from The MMA Show Hosted by Avais
#mentalhealth #badtech #dell #emotive Follow me: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/awvais Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awvais Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/awvais Listen on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/pk/podcast ... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0drSNqu ... Google Podcast: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=... There is no question that we are all more dependent on technology than ever. So what happens when that tech does not work? In the past, Emily Dreyfuss used an old-school strategy: She yelled. When Amazon’s Alexa spat out wrong answers or misunderstood questions, Dreyfuss let the virtual assistant have it. Tech frustrations like this have happened to all of us. Your wifi is always dropping out. Your passwords do not work. Your laptop crashes, and you lose everything you were working on. Just reading about those possibilities could be enough to raise your blood pressure. Technology can damage our state of mind, and new research is bearing that out: Computer giant Dell Technologies, in partnership with neuroscience firm EMOTIV, put people through a gauntlet of bad tech experiences, and then measured their brainwaves to gauge their reactions.
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