Often we dont fully realise exactly how dependent we have become. The best way to find out how addicted you are to digital communication is to unplug for a day. No phone, no computer, no videogames etc. Take a sabbath from all those things. Its a lot harder then you think.
Mark Bittman of New York Times wrote a great article on his experiences with unplugging.
I would no more make a new-agey call to find inner peace than I would encourage a return to the mimeograph. But I do believe that there has to be a way to regularly impose some thoughtfulness, or at least calm, into modern life — or at least my version. Once I moved beyond the fear of being unavailable and what it might cost me, I experienced what, if I wasn’t such a skeptic, I would call a lightness of being. I felt connected to myself rather than my computer. I had time to think, and distance from normal demands. I got to stop.
The entire article can be found here.
