2023-04-25 21:49:00
If society had been told 20 years ago that today televisions would be replaced by super-small telephones and that these telephones, in addition to being used to make calls, would serve as video game consoles, compasses, agendas, voice recorders, and even cameras among a thousand more functions, they probably wouldn’t have believed it.
Nor would they have believed that being so multifaceted, they would have the power to absorb the attention and time of almost everyone on the planet. However, today reaching such conclusions is not surprising, especially since everyone has already adapted their habits to the so-called “technological age”.
Today, what can attract attention, for example, are the data revealed by studies of the Economic Cooperation and Development (Oecde), where it is known that this addiction, dependence or use of cell phones is affecting the productivity levels of the economies:
According to the OECD list, the first place is occupied by Brazil with 9.3 hours and “Colombia is the second country where citizens spend more time on cell phones and in social networks with an average of nine hours, time that is above the hours of an established working day. Of this total, 4.1 are used to browse platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Whatsapp”, they explain in the newspaper La República.
Data that contrasted in terms of labor productivity would be equivalent to saying that an hour worked in Colombia contributes US$17.7 to GDP, while an hour worked in Costa Rica contributes US$28.8, in Chile US$35.2 and in the United States United $85.
A worrying situation since according to The Conference Board “In one hour of work in 2020, Colombia only generated 35% of the OECD average product. If you compare it with the US, the figure is even lower, since the productivity of Colombians represented only 26% of that of Americans in 2019.”
According to the data, the third country in which people spend more hours browsing the internet is Mexico, with eight hours on average, followed by Turkey with 7.2 hours and Portugal with 6.4. And the least are Australia with five, Switzerland with 4.6, France and Germany with 4.4 each, contributing US$71.3, US$86.2, US$80.1 and US$80.6 to GDP per hour. worked.
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