American author John Naisbitt pointed out in High Tech, High Touch that the worship of technology and the fear of technology are two extremes. In his view, taking a Walkman, mobile phone, and notebook computer on a seaside vacation and as a result failing to listen to the sound of the surf is a sign of technology addiction, and that's an attitude toward life that should not be encouraged.
美國作家約翰奈思比在《高科技・高思維》一書中指出，崇拜科技與恐懼科技都是兩個極端，在他看來，帶著隨身聽、手機和筆記型電腦到海邊渡假，以致沒有傾聽到海濤和海浪聲，是「科技上癮」的訊號，也是最不值得鼓勵的一種生活態度。