Why do kids get attached to the digital world?

Not just kids, most humans who have access are in some way addicted to technology, whether it is to consume content, create the same or interact with others. Technology is exposing children and offering them with a chance of experiencing things they might not be able to see, feel, hear or touch in the real world. (AFP/file) ‘Oh my! I have forgotten my phone. I have to go back and get it!’ is a lament heard over and over again. The phone has become an essential and integral part of our existence. This is not just kids we are talking about. The adult world has the mobile phone as a natural body extension and cannot imagine life without it. I am 55 years old. The world wide web went live on the 6th of August 1991 when I was already 27 years old and while the first demo of the mobile phone happened in 1973, it was between 1983 and 2014 when its popularity raged. During that time worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew to over 7 billion users. I had my first mobile phone in 1995 and I have never been without one since. Not for a single day since. The ways I use the mobile has expanded, the amount of time I use it for extended and what I use it for has exploded. The attachment and addiction is worldwide. It is not only kids who are the victims of the digital world. Something like the internet that has only been in existence for about two and half decades has changed the way we do almost everything. We are dependent. Things are changing for our world and that too, at an alarming pace when it comes to technology and the advancement it is bringing with it. Every field […]

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