We’ve heard of people trapped in their homes by a stubborn fear of the outdoors. But Steve Miller is forced to avoid the most ordinary public places because of an allergy to modern technology. The DJ, who once played at the massive Pacha club in Ibiza, is hit by dizziness, confusion and nausea whenever he’s near a wi-fi connection. Trips to the shops, the pub or catching a train all leave him in agonising pain.
Steve, who is best known by his stagename Afterlife, told the Sun: “I feel like an exile on my own planet. It’s almost impossible to find somewhere without wi-fi nowadays. If I go somewhere, I can instantly sense the wi-fi and have to leg it.”
The condition, known as electromagnetic sensitivity, affects two per cent of the population, and this is set to grow as more people opt for wireless internet signals.
Steve navigates normal daily chores with the help of a ‘wi-fi detector’ which spots areas he should avoid. [...]In his current home, in a remote area of Cornwall, he is shielded from the ‘electrosmog’ by sturdy 18-inch walls.
There have been calls for the Government to determine whether or not wireless networks can damage your health. In April, teaching leaders called for the technology to be removed from schools to protect children from a heightened risk of sterility and cancer.
I’m pretty sure this kind of disease has been disproven a couple of years ago. That is: There is not such thing.
I might be wrong though, I’m skeptical that’s all.
Hmmm, “dizziness, confusion and nausea” — sounds like a typical Saturday night.
I do wonder, though — we are constantly bathing ourselves in more and more electromagnetic radiation of all usable frequencies — at what point will the effects be noticeable? When _everything_ constantly emits radio waves, possibly at several different frequency bands at the same time? Already we have thousands of commercial radio and TV stations, microwave ovens, microwave telephone towers, about a billion cell phones, wi-fi (a, b, g and n), Wi-Max, cordless phones, all the wireless data services, RFID scanners at the entrance to every store and library, traffic radar, satellite communications, bluetooth headsets, RF remotes, CB radios, ham radios, police, fire, ambulance and taxi service radios and on and on and on. At _some_ point there has to be some effect.
More BS.
The dude is a DJ. He became that by listening to the radio (Wifi IS a radio) and playing records on a system that throws off electromagnetic fields all the time.
He must have gotten sick from his TV (I do but for cultural reasons) as well.
This is another one of those psychosomatic illnesses people get all the time. One can be convinced strongly about things in their own minds. This is why there are fundamentalists and paranoid sociopaths. (Sometimes, I know, they are the same thing)
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#22 – there is an effect: it makes women hotter.