While I was reading this story earlier about a mother who left her child near an open window for a few seconds while she went to get her mobile phone, it occurred to me that I read a lot of stories nowadays along similar lines. It seems we’re prepared to take all sorts of wild reckless risks so that we can have and use our phones: far greater risks than for other objects. Whether they’re irradiating us or not, it seems they have a great capacity to put us in harm’s way.
The inability of humans to control short-term impulses like this is well recognised in gamblers, for example, but it seems the phone has a very powerful grasp on us. Perhaps the people who are suggesting we should switch them off more often, leave them at home and so on have a good point?
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