Smartphones connected to the internet are blocking people from seeing the world with their own eyes. Moreover, social media applications are playing a debatable game by studying and analszing what we do online and how to make more profit from us; offerings, notifications, and many other tools that are used to keep us busy online and without noticing it, we end up being manipulated by these mega corporations.
Smartphones connected to the internet are blocking people from seeing the world with their own eyes. Moreover, social media applications are playing a debatable game by studying and analszing what we do online and how to make more profit from us; offerings, notifications, and many other tools that are used to keep us busy online and without noticing it, we end up being manipulated by these mega corporations.
All this happens with our permission when we click on: “I accept”. With the excuse of providing a better user experience, we give up our privacy in exchange for becoming part of these social platforms, remember, we are not a client for these companies, we are their product.
Just like in the movie “The Matrix”, the lead character Neo was given the option of taking a red pill, which would enable him to leave the shadows and start living a real life out of the matrix. Morpheus also offered a blue pill which would make Neo return to his illusion.
By accepting the terms and services of these platforms, we are taking the blue pill in which will put us into an made-up illusion life where everything that interact with us is controlled by an organisation and not by you or me, and that’s where the problems begin, because recent studies show that adults are getting addicted to these internet connected applications with the same impact of any other drugs, leading us to depression, high anxiety, violence, and introspection.
If that’s not enough, it is even worse for kids and teenagers, due the fact that they are still developing their cognitive capabilities, these apps are turning the new generation into less capable adults, which superficial thoughts, narcissist, and intolerant behavior, restricting them from unleashing their full cognitive potential and making them afraid of the reality.
With that in mind, we have created Moon Platform, a system that maps the main human cognitive skills impacted by smartphone applications, classifying them by groups, study and analyse the impacts that each group cause in brain development, helping people to avoid unintended effects of overuse of smartphones in human lives and Leverage the benefits of the moderate use these technologies.