We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it?

I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing.

Ultimately, it's a culture change.

NPR's Body Electric, a special interactive series investigating the relationship between our

tech and our bodies.

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One Christmas when I was young, my mom got me a hand vacuum cleaner for a gift.

I remember when I opened it, everyone was so confused. It even looked like a joke.

You know, I was a kid so like why would you get a vacuum cleaner for a kid? But when I saw it I knew

exactly why she got it for me. Around this time I was drawing a lot on the living room

table and I would draw the pencil making mistakes and erase and all this eraser

debris would go everywhere and annoyingly I would continue to work but it would

always be in my way so my mom paid attention to that and

she bought me a vacuum cleaner so I could suck up all that debris and be able to

work more comfortably. And I think my mom, you know, she was like that with everyone.

She paid attention to the details and she found a way to see what you needed

and what would help you live a better life and she would do that for you.

And I think that's one example of what created this close connection I had

with my mom.

Daniel Chong went from a kid drawing at his living room table to an animator whose work for Disney, Nickelodeon, and Pixar.

Daniel's also the creator of the Cartoon Network show, We Bear Bears.

It's about three Bears, Gris, Panda, and Ice Bear, who moved to San Francisco and navigate the complexities of modern human society.

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