'Look up' experiment highlights kids' disturbing technology addiction

Melissa Dykes
The Daily Sheeple
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:36 UTC

Wow. This says a lot about the Brave New World we are steadily marching into these days.

This "experiment" is an ad for the yet-to-be-released Dolmio Pepper Hacker, a sneaky gadget that looks like a harmless pepper grinder but actually cuts the WIFI signals at the dinner table so parents can bring their tech addicted children back to reality.

In the video below, they set up several tuned out elementary age kids obliviously playing games on their iPads and other devices at the dinner table by changing up the room's decor around them and finally, swapping out their own parents and siblings with completely different people dressed similarly... all without the children noticing what was happening around them.

When the WIFI was cut, the kids finally looked up and realized they were in a strange new environment surrounded by total strangers.

Watch:

This is how obliviously lost in the Matrix the youngest generations in our tech addicted society are.

Comment: Though the above advert treated the situation as a joke, the truth is technology addiction is like digital heroin.

Many parents intuitively understand that ubiquitous glowing screens are having a negative effect on kids. We see the aggressive temper tantrums when the devices are taken away and the wandering attention spans when children are not perpetually stimulated by their hyper-arousing devices. Worse, we see children who become bored, apathetic, uninteresting and uninterested when not plugged in.