We live in a stressful age.
And the more we understand the base sources of our stress, the better equipped we are to develop skills to manage it.
So we asked a number of AI sources what major inventions they believed were responsible for causing most stress among humans.
While there were some minor discrepancies in responses, the following are some of the inventions that appeared more or less in all of them:-
1. Smartphones, which make us feel we are constantly "on call" and involve notifications that eat into our privacy and free time (alarm clocks appeared in many responses for similar reasons)
2. Social media sites, because the unrealistic expectations they place on us to "keep up" with others and their addictive nature unhealthily monopolises our time and energy
3. Email, due to the availability of immediate issue and response any time of day with related pressures
4. Television, owing to in home news and information overload
5. Microwaves, which have facilitated reliance on less healthy products with associated health consequences (fast food appeared in many results for the same reason)
6. Credit cards, creating financial pressure and ease of overspend
7. Caffeine, as over reliance can cause sleep and anxiety issues (though interestingly the searches did not list alcohol which can have the same level of impact).
Surprisingly, not one response stated that the rapid growth and development of AI itself was a source of stress for humans.....
Funny, that 🤔🤫😄😁😆😂!
We warmly welcome users comments on the above and feedback of what they believe are the most stressful inventions, so together we can all better understand sources of the modern day stress phenomenon😊🙂😍❤🧡💚💙