“Screen overload” has growing numbers of office dwellers seeking high-adrenaline leisure-time thrills to kill the boredom of their boxed-in lives. “The screen is pervasive in our contemporary lives, and its lack of personal physicality, its diminished contact with the real world we’ve evolved in and lived in for thousands of years, may be creating a new boredom and so physical adventure re-enters the picture,” said Frank Farley of Temple’s College of Education.