IT and Mental Disorders

Posted in computing by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Apr 18, 2008

This is about a theme I always want to write about but never find time to dedicate to as I want to reason it wisely to avoid missunterpretations. So, as a previous disclaimer: I AM NOT A NEO-LUDDITE.

Photo is from Flickr (ario_j: Effect of understanding on mental entropy over time)

At the moment I’ll use this post as an ideas compilation, in order to gather more and more info for writting a proper text (if you’d like to add up…, just add up in the comments, you’re welcome to do so).

* Thesis: Human Beings are not ready for long distance shots of technological advances. Step by step, incremental well-dosed and callibrated innovations are better suited for its adoption.

* Facts to be analysed: increasing number of people suffering mental illnesses is related to increase in life-expectancy or is a matter of technological advance.

* Data:

          From The World Health Report. [ O ]

          From The Global Information Technology Report . [ O ]

          From the World Bank Datasets and the CIA’s WorldFactBook.

* Miscellania:

          "…humans cannot make sense of chaos" (Syed Towheed). [ O ]

          "Mental illness". [ O ]

          Technology Adoption. [ O ] [ O ]

 

Oops! It seems we have found nothing related.

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

This is a captcha-picture. It is used to prevent mass-access by robots. (see: www.captcha.net)

You must read and type the 5 chars within 0..9 and A..F, and submit the form.

  

Oh no, I cannot read this. Please, generate a