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06/25/2013
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Digital universe affects our perception of the passage of hours and diffuses perennial feeling of speed
RIO - The connected population in the world - 2.7 billion people - passes every month, more than 35 billion hours on the internet. This is equivalent, according to calculations by Go-site Gulf.com based consultancies like comScore Data Mine and Pew Research, 3 million 995 thousand and 433 years (3,995,433 years!). The question is: how users feel the perception of this time?
With each passing year, we hear more expression, "gee, this year is flying more than the last." And when we say "I'll give you just a peek at Facebook", ended up staying hours on the web without realizing.
Nicholas Carr, author of "What the internet is doing to our brains," said a recent article on the website Edge.org be concerned with the acceleration of the current time, as information technology would be putting us in speed "warp" of "Star Trek." "I am aware that my own perception of time has been changed by technology. If I use a computer or web connection is a bit slower than mine, even for a matter of seconds, I think the wait almost unbearable. Before, I had never been so aware (and disturbed) by the mere passage of seconds, "Carr writes.
Experts corroborate this kind of experience. And now that there is a sense of urgency aroused by life ubiquitously online received attention from scientists. A study by the Department of Science and Technology of Universidade de Hong Kong in 2004 was studying the effect of different colors on the monitor indicators of downloads on users' perception of time, while the Danish anthropologist Andreas Lloyd wrote at the University of Manchester in 2005 that information technologies and communication, while the released of "rhythms and time synchronized society", diluted the boundaries between working hours and leisure. Shortly before the turn of the century, the Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch epitomized the general sense of urgency connected creating the "Internet Time", which replaces the bizarre time 24 hours a day by 1000 "beats" the internet, each lasting of 1.264 minutes.
- The world turned faster. The digital time is faster than our chronological time. And that changes everything - says psychologist Luciana Nunes Institute Psicoinfo. - Speed is an important thing and increasingly required in the mobile world. And part of that is digital speed the need to do several things at once. How novel to see and be online in a mobile phone or tablet.
Action opposed to reflection
It is precisely this demand in multitasking that apparently "steals" time. But this is a false sense according Junia de Vilhena, coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Research and Social Intervention and professor in the Department of Psychology at PUC-Rio.
- The time of contemporaneity is the time of action, which is not accompanied meditation or reflection - defines Junia. - And the perception that "never have time" is actually a consequence of that we do not even "make" time.
According to her, it is impossible to account for all demands, responding to all requests. This anxiety leads us to think that we are always "losing" anything.
- It takes a certain discipline, and opt sometimes frustrate each other, being able to make him realize that "no, I'm available to you 24 hours a day" - he says.
According to analysts, the time Generation Y is different from the previous time, because contemporary urban life have a different rhythm now, more giddy.
According to psychologist Luciana Nunes, the speed of the digital world is present in even the most mundane daily tasks.
- For example: the school, the teacher is no use spending a homework assignment for next week. Young people need challenges. Instead of sending homework gigantic, I ask: in half an hour, the answers to questions two three - count.
Human processing bottleneck
A very quick adaptation to new time intervals led to a kind of feeling of estrangement with time. Psychologist Andrew Mascioli Carnation, associate professor of the Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, and a Ph.D. in neurophysiology, opines that as the internet almost everything is instant, in desacostumamos to wait for things.
- And try to do everything at the same time has an effect on attention, because there is a bottleneck, a limit on our ability to process information - Clavier says.
If the information on the internet is useful and convenient, on the other hand the feeling of loss of time is also the translation that we leave aside the time to think, for leisure, time to be with yourself, says of Junia Vilhena.
- The time we stayed in the virtual space is one thing, but another is the time to find someone specifically, live, and look in his eyes - sentences.
Already Luciana Nunes indicates that new perceptions of time may portend changes announced by the brand-new post-industrial society.
- Education has changed, the economy has changed, communication has changed. With all this, the relationship became. When relationships change, change the culture, and culture is the basis of the story. So, in the end, we are changing the story - resume.
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