“It was viewed as hostile. Or precious. 'Oh, look at us, trying to have mental health.’” So said one the people I interviewed about Digital Sabbaths for my
Since the National Day of Unplugging starts tomorrow, I thought I'd repost this Peter Coyote-narrated short film, Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl:" via youtube
Last Monday was the third Family Day Unplugged in Alberta, Canada, a chance to "unplug from technology & electronics for the day, and spend time connecting with yourself,
Evgeny Morozov has a short critical piece in The New Republic about digital detoxes, mindfulness and technology. I think the swipe at mindfulness is on the shallow side,
Author and education researcher Julianne Wurm writes about what she learned from giving up her phone during a 6-week trip in Asia. She had her laptop and iPad (both? really?),
Frog Design, like J. Walter Thompson, has identified "Disconnecting in the Modern, Digital World" as one of the 15 trends that will shape technology in 2014. Faraday Zones...
Hugh Macleod writes about the rise of an "Antidote Economy" in response to the "*brave* new world of stimulus oversupply.... It’s an increasingly huge cultural phenomenon, simply because
Recently I've stumbled across several digital Sabbath projects. The Foresters Tech Timeout, which I wrote about recently, is one; Mother London's No Internet Week is another. An older
Mother London, one of those branding / marketing / design / media consultancies that's so hip it's impossible to tell what they actually do (but they have offices
Foresters, a Canadian life insurance company (can one think of an institution that sounds more stable and grounded?) just released a "Tech Timeout" survey looking at household Internet