Will Students Become Physically Weak if All Their Text Books are On an Ebook Reader?

 I always had a stack of books, 5 to 7 very large text books that I carried around. Today, we can see that in the future everyone will have e-book readers as their textbooks on them, which will look like some sort of tablet or iPad looking device.

Obviously, these will be connected to the Internet, and to all the information of the world, because that’s where all the human information resides. And as you know these devices are getting smaller and lighter every single year. As carbon nano-tubes come out, surely these high-tech plastic devices will not weigh much more than a paper napkin. I’d say in about four or five years from now, at the explosive rate of innovation in this sector.

Now then, this brings me to my next comment, and it may be hilarious to contemplate, but I want you to consider this question and see what you come up; “will college students become physically weak, if they are no longer required to carry around textbooks?” Or will they have better posture because they aren’t carrying around all those textbooks with one hand? Will they have fewer back problems, and less need to go to the chiropractor?

You see, on one hand the e-book readers will be more ergonomically correct then carrying around a bunch of textbooks, although you definitely won’t get the same amount of work out from walking from the parking lot to your classes, and from class to class and then again back to the parking lot with all those books.

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Indeed, I am not sure if you have noticed or not but when you’re out and around town everyone seems to be carrying around these little devices, and walking down the sidewalk with them. And their posture isn’t that great because their heads are bent down as they’re walking looking at the device. This is going get them all needing to get a Chiropractor adjustment. You see, the new iPads, iPhones, iPods, and every other personal tech that resembles them, are not ergonomically sound for humans.

There was a recent article in the New York Times about how folks were so busy with their personal tech devices walking down the sidewalks in New York City, they kept running into other people, and stopping in the middle of the sidewalk causing problems with the pedestrian traffic flow. The article mentioned how obnoxious this was and they are right, and it’s even happened in my own city out here in California. When people are not paying attention, they tend to get in the way, as they stand in front of doorways, and are oblivious to what’s going on around them.

They also tend to bump into things, and now you know why we don’t want people to use all these personal tech devices while they are driving. It would appear to me that if you are thinking about graduating from college and getting a degree, and then going out into the business world to make money, that being a Chiropractor might be a very good idea for you, because all of these people are going to need your services. Indeed, hope you please consider all this.

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