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Kris G Posted 9 years ago
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The text I got the following fragments from is entitled "My digital detox". Can you help me with the underlined sentences please, as I'm not sure I understand them correctly. Thank you in advance.
For those of us compelled to check email every few minutes, that finding accounts for those days which seem to pass so quickly with so little getting done. And this is part of a wider trend. 'The more we connect, the more our thoughts lean outward,' Powers writes. 'There's a preoccupation with what's going on "out there" in the bustling otherworld, rather than "in here" with yourself and those around you.'
Powers also talks about 'vanishing family trick', where a seemingly sociable family gradually dissolves away to screens in different corners of the house.
For those of us compelled to check email every few minutes, that finding accounts for those days which seem to pass so quickly with so little getting done. And this is part of a wider trend. 'The more we connect, the more our thoughts lean outward,' Powers writes. 'There's a preoccupation with what's going on "out there" in the bustling otherworld, rather than "in here" with yourself and those around you.'
Powers also talks about 'vanishing family trick', where a seemingly sociable family gradually dissolves away to screens in different corners of the house.
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e. use the internet or electronic devices - the more our thoughts are of the outside world rather than our families and relationships. We are looking at what is happening away from the home and we are doing so as individuals rather than as a social group.
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- use the internet or electronic devices - the more our thoughts are of the outside world rather than our families and relationships.
- We are looking at what is happening away from the home and we are doing so as individuals rather than as a social group.
- The 'vanishing family trick' refers to the idea that people can be at home - seemingly together - yet not really be connecting with each other as they are spending all of their time looking at electronic devices ('screens') in separate parts of the house.
- A family which stays at home together is not necessarily communicating together and therefore the family 'vanishes'.
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The more we connect - i.e. use the internet or electronic devices - the more our thoughts are of the outside world rather than our families and relationships. We are looking at what is happening away from the home and we are doing so as individuals rather than as a social group.
The 'vanishing family trick' refers to the idea that people can be at home - seemingly together - yet not really be
The 'vanishing family trick' refers to the idea that people can be at home - seemingly together - yet not really be
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