Saturday, February 4, 2012

Technology's Effect On Society Is Healthy AND Awesome!

Gamer lies dead in internet cafe for 9 HOURS before anyone notices  30 people sat around Chen Rong-yu did not realise anything was wrong..  Tragic and infuriating.  The Daily Mail.  Excerpts:

A young gamer lay dead in an internet cafe in Taiwan for nine hours before anyone noticed.


Chen Rong-yu, 23, is thought to have suffered a heart attack after playing League of Legends for 23 hours.

He was apparently still sat on the chair with his hands stretched out in front of the keyboard as if he was still playing in the cafe in New Taipei City.
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Initial tests revealed he died after suffering a heart attack brought on by low temperatures, fatigue and lack of movement.



His family told the authorities he had been treated for a heart condition in September.

What's worse:  Continuing sedentary behaviors with heart problems, or dying, and no one noticing?  Is this the manifest behaviors of the technological "new normal?"  "League of Legends" must be quite a little game..

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