Eyes Down, Minds Elsewhere, ‘Deadwalkers’ Are Among Us
September 28th, 2015Via: Washington Post:
You have seen the zombie-like creatures walking among us. In fact, you may be one of them, moseying along with your eyes fixated on that tiny screen that rests in the palm of your hand.
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“Some data suggests that at any given moment on the streets of America, 60 percent of pedestrians are distracted while walking, meaning either on the phone or doing something on their phone,” said Alan S. Hilibrand of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. “It’s a bit of a startling number.”
Hilibrand, vice chairman of orthopaedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, has seen evidence of what he calls “digital deadwalkers” on center-city streets.
“We’ve had people come into the emergency room who were hit by cars,” he said. “They’re looking at their phone and not paying attention to the fact that a vehicle is making a turn.”
Its not just pedestrians. Its people in their cars driving at 70 miles per hour and then inexplicably driving erratically, slowing down, speeding up, verving off the road, etc. I can spot them. This is either a chiropractor; eye doctor; or surgeon’s dream: Head held forward in a perpetual downward stance; no mobility in the neck. Hah, for those with Iphones, you are the next generation of the health insurance industry wet dream. I am in the more seasoned generation that has been told we have our hips replaced, our tits cut off, or our colon’s removed. There is always something we need to do to keep the medical profession and their expensive equipment paid for. So far, I have escaped all of that. Now we have the generation that knows exercise is good for you, but somehow doesn’t get that eyes on blue light, neck down, and may not know what EMF radiation is? Iphones are a nightmare for humans and bats. A future wet dream for all kinds of health care practitioner’s. Good luck with that. It gives a whole new meaning to the saying, “Heads Up.”