1. Is it so?
2. Why
2.1. Thesis: I'm part of a social system as\ long as I have a certain level of\ information output and input!
2.1.1. Addiction is the result of having fear of loosing this level.
2.1.2. To know everything might be boring too? Or I start feeling the power to control a social system (group).
2.1.3. Addiction describes an uncontrolled dependancy
2.2. Analog Feedback is Not enough anymore.
2.2.1. Think big, act real(time). A digital network is bigger, faster and most efficient in analogy to a super brain.
3. E-mail
4. Links
4.1. Brand eins 07/2010
4.2. Why Technology Is So Addictive, and How You Can Avoid Tech Burnout
4.2.1. video games have managed to pull the dopamine trigger
4.2.2. Email too - Ding! Curious!
4.2.3. Smartphones: these tiny little multitaskers are requesting our attention wherever we go
4.2.4. Multitasking-Verzetteln: (checking the time) into a series of tasks you don't necessarily need to do (check email and reply)
4.2.5. multitasking is really just a myth. While we can act like we're doing several things at once, we're really just quickly shifting our attention between different activities.
4.2.6. Tip: consider interacting with one device at a time to avoid multitasking
5. Self-help
5.1. Interesting! What do you mean? How to avoid getting sucked into permanent attention etc.
5.2. Sucht
5.2.1. Was ist Sucht?
5.2.2. Sucht Wikipedia
6. The Turbo
6.1. @AV: What does that mean to you? Just some key words to trigger any thoughts...
6.1.1. i.e. What makes it so addictive?
6.1.2. What are the mechanisms of the addictiveness? (Flow Principles, general principals of addictiveness?)