You love your smartphone. You continually check for new e-mail messages. A large part of your day is made up of downloading your favorite TV shows to your device. But how important is technology to your life? Do you consider it more important than sex? If you do, it’s not just you. A new survey by Harris Interactive says that more adults would prefer to do without sex than would prefer to do without their tech .
More tech please!
The Harris survey charted the percentage of adults who said that they could not live without certain items. Food — a wise choice — topped the list, with 73 percent of adults saying they could not live without it. A total of 42 percent of respondents said that they couldn’t live without their cars, the second-place answer. The next four top answers were all tech products. And respondents deemed each of these tech products as being more important than sex.
The list
According to the survey, 20 percent of U.S. adults stated that they could not live without sex. That trailed the percentage who said that they couldn’t live without television (23 percent), their computers or laptops (24 percent), mobile phones (26 percent) and Internet access (28 percent).
Concerns?
What do the poll results indicate to you? Is it a sign that technology has become a major tool in our lives, one that makes our lives easier? Or is it a sign that technology has become too important, seizing our lives rather than complementing them?