Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre in India
                     The Addiction of Technology
The Alcohol Rehabilitation Center in India often has patients or known patients struggling with
technology addiction and specifically the younger generation.  Are you someone who is always
glued to their smartphones? Are you a technology addict who feels compelled to check their
smartphone every two minutes? Today, the Alcohol Rehabilitation Center in India talks about
the addiction of technology. 
The Alcohol  Rehabilitation  Center  in  India states  that  technology  addiction  is  an  impulse
control disorder that involves obsessive use of mobile phones, the internet devices or video
games, despite knowing negative consequences to the user. The disorder may also be referred
to as digital addiction.
Bill Gates didn’t let his children have cell phones until they were teenagers. Steve Jobs famously
didn’t let his kids use iPads or iPhones. Why would these Tech titans stop their children from
using products they have created? Because they know the grim truth: Technology addiction is a
very real problem.
Every  machine  created  is  to  extend our  facilities.  We have  visual  capabilities  so  there  are
telescopes and microscopes. Some 20yrs before there used to be those blue box telephones to
dial numbers. My Grandma states “it was such a sucking thing to spin the roll ten times to dial a
number  and  today  I  just  spoke  out  the  name  to  dial  the  number  and  it  was  that  easy.
Technology has made things at ease, technology is like a boon.”
So the problem is not technology but our compulsive attitude towards it. Technology is just an
enhancement of our capabilities, nothing more. People use gadgets compulsively i.e they use
gadgets unconsciously. Once we start using phones, we don’t know when to stop.Once we start
taking  selfies,  we  don’t  know  when  to  stop  clicking  pictures  either.We  use  everything  so
repetitively and unconsciously that we are just compulsive on using every gadget. Now they
have become an addiction just like drugs.
An expert of internet says that 70% on the internet traffic is only pornography.
What has happened to us? People become addicted to whatever new thing they use. Why?
When we have such phenomenal tools of communication, such as the internet, in our hands,
isn’t  it  important  that  positive  things  overwhelm  the  world,  rather  than  such  negativity?
Humans use things so compulsively that they forget the right way or right ethic to use it. How
can anything  made for  our  convenience  have  the right  to  make you obsessive  and out  of
control?
If  we use every gadget consciously, if  we use everything for our well being and others well
being, there will not be any issue. Technology is not what we need to handle. Technology is a
tremendous  enabler,  nobody  should  ever  complain  about  it.  It  is  humans  who  use  it
exploitatively.