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Scientists have announced a new disease that modern man is susceptible to
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
A new disease is rapidly spreading around the world. Research conducted in America has shown that people are increasingly losing patience because of a too slow internet connection. Extra seconds of waiting turn into a real test, and if the computer freezes, sweaty palms, arrhythmia, increased blood pressure, rage are observed, and in some cases, a person completely loses control of himself.
Research conducted in France showed that on average, each user loses 11 minutes a day waiting for their computer to boot up. That's 5 days a year. In addition, 53% of all respondents said that they feel very irritated during this time, 22% take out their smartphones while waiting for the system to boot up. And 27% claim that they have become more restless at night because of "slow hardware", and 2% of people are in a bad mood for the entire day.
11 minutes of waiting per day is 2% of working time. During this time, a person could easily relax, take a little rest, but, unfortunately, this is impossible due to the fact that modern man has completely forgotten how to wait.
Patience is a real art, but our brain, to put it simply, wants to get everything at once. This phenomenon has already been described in many neurobiological studies: the striatum (part of the brain, also called the corpus striatum) pushes a person to new sensations, risk. As a result of the activity of this part of the brain, we tend to choose an immediate reward, preferring it even to one that is much larger, but delayed in time. The only way to resist such intolerance is to develop the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which carries out cognitive control over human impulses.
The neural connections that are located in the prefrontal cortex allow this area to control the striatum; the more developed the connections, the more tolerant the person.
In the 80s, when the need to wait for something began to disappear in raising children, scientists developed principles according to which it was necessary to teach patience. Following this principle, it is necessary to increase the time intervals from the desired to the receipt over time. This principle really works and it has been proven that the striatum, the impatient part of our brain, can gradually wean itself from the habit of receiving everything immediately. But in this case, the opposite effect also works - if the waiting time is reduced, the striatum again gains the upper hand and the person loses patience. Therefore, scientists warn that if you are used to receiving everything at once, then you will have the hardest time coping with this habit and putting up with waiting. This is exactly the trend we are seeing now: improvements in technology led to the fact that the loading time of the system and various applications became shorter and shorter, and the striatum, our striped body in the brain, got used to this so much that even a slight delay in the system leads to unbearable torment.
The customer of these studies is Sandisk, a well-known manufacturer of flash drives. In order to attract more users to their products, the argument of severe psychological suffering of users is quite often used.
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