Personal Stories
Stories are important. Without them, we lose our connection with each others' realities and greatly limit our understanding.
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2011
Sensitive and Inside Big Technology: Views from the Other Side (Part 1 of 5)
from "Stop Smart Meters!" website
Stop Smart Meters! Website
This is part one of a four-part piece based on interviews with people inside the high-tech industry who've become electro-sensitive and begun to question the silence that pervades their field on the matter. To protect their future ability to find work, we've used pseudonyms.
"Located in the Pacific Northwest, 'Nora Wood' has worked in high tech for many years, but now finds herself reckoning with the effect her work environment is having on her health and well-being. She sees a lot of good in technology when it's wisely used. She's in her mid-forties and has a sharp mind.
"It was a six-month period of working at home, between stints doing high-tech office-based work, that brought the problem to the fore. She felt better at home, but then when she started up her current temporary contract with a major tech company, the troubles returned: hair-trigger irritability, sleep problems, and brain-fog. In the office job before the stretch at home, she'd noticed the wifi routers directly over her workspace, but hadn't put the pieces together . . .
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