by david allan van nostrand | Dec 3, 2018 | Constant Contact, Items in the News, Unintended Consequences
Nearly half of American smartphone owners say they can’t live without it. I guess not, when on average, Americans check theirs 85 times a day. Everyone* knows that using smartphones is a distraction. But few know that even when we turn them off, they continue to...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 17, 2016 | Conformity, Constant Contact, Human Behavior, Technology
In an earlier century, Fear Of Missing Out was not being able to talk about last night’s episode of All In The Family, or Cheers, or 60 Minutes, or Seinfeld. Now it’s the fear of not knowing what’s hottest and most current, what’s breaking and what’s trending, and...