{"id":3038,"date":"2008-08-11T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2009-07-12T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T14:43:13","slug":"surviving-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3038","title":{"rendered":"Surviving The Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Core of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?s=The+Matrix\">The Matrix<\/a> is the wireless smart phone. A device as reviled as it is praised. It has\u00a0brought freedom to\u00a0our lifestyles while at the same time been the subject of &#8220;Hang Up and Drive&#8221;\u00a0bumper stickers.<\/p>\n<p>I installed Facebook on mine today. I&#8217;ve never been more connected with more people in more places, from Cedar Rapids to San Francisco; South Minneapolis; Switzerland to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Save the distraction\u00a0these devices surely cause to drivers (and apparently walkers alike),\u00a0the health risk\u00a0these devices pose whilst pressed to one&#8217;s cranium for sometimes hours at a time\u00a0is not yet clear.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous studies have been conducted, the lion&#8217;s share by the wireless industry itself,\u00a0lending the &#8220;all clear&#8221; declaration\u00a0dubious merit at best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/aug2008\/tc2008085_412407.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_dialogue+with+readers\">Why Cell-Phone Health Concerns Persist<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If putting Garfield\u00a0in the microwave causes the critter mortal harm (anecdotally speaking of course), it stands to reason, even allowing for the difference in frequency and power, that a cellular telephone likely has <em>some<\/em> effect on the brain &#8211; certainly the side of your head.<\/p>\n<p>Whether that effect is a slight rise in temperature akin to the hysteria-inducing magnitude cited in the Man-Made Global Warming\/Cooling\/Change movement or tumors the size of golf balls has yet to be conclusively determined. Cell phones have enjoyed\u00a0societal saturation for about ten years. Brain tumors reportedly have a gestation period that is more often than not at least that.<\/p>\n<p>As for me my approach is as my approach to God and Nutritional Supplements.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in God and Vitamins because I&#8217;d rather be wrong and have had faith all the while than the other way around when I&#8217;ve written\u00a0my last blog post.<\/p>\n<p>So I use a headset and forward my cell phone to my\u00a0desk phone\u00a0as much as possible. I don&#8217;t give my kids cell phones. I use the Bluetooth system in my car and I don&#8217;t care if you can&#8217;t hear me as well.<\/p>\n<p>I moderate the pressing of the flesh with my Treo 755p.<\/p>\n<p>What say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Core of The Matrix is the wireless smart phone. A device as reviled as it is praised. It has\u00a0brought freedom to\u00a0our lifestyles while at the same time been the subject of &#8220;Hang Up and Drive&#8221;\u00a0bumper stickers. I installed Facebook on mine today. I&#8217;ve never been more connected with more people in more places, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23,49,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything","category-geekery","category-science","category-the-matrix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}