{"id":3574,"date":"2009-11-05T20:45:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:32","slug":"technology-and-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/technology-and-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology and happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since the 1950s, reports of major depression have increased tenfold&#8230;People are more anxious, trust government and business less, and get divorced more often&#8230;There is, though, one group of Americans that is imperturbably sunny: the Amish. Their depression rates are negligibly low relative to the rest of society&#8217;s. Their happiness levels are consistently high.&#8221; &#8211; <a href='http:\/\/www.owlnet.rice.edu\/~comp300\/documents\/TechnologyandHappiness.pdf'>James Surowiecki<\/a>. See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=264\">Better Off<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since the 1950s, reports of major depression have increased tenfold&#8230;People are more anxious, trust government and business less, and get divorced more often&#8230;There is, though, one group of Americans that is imperturbably sunny: the Amish. Their depression rates are negligibly low relative to the rest of society&#8217;s. Their happiness levels are consistently high.&#8221; &#8211; James&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/technology-and-happiness\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6,5,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness-2","category-philosophy","category-technology","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-VE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5029,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}