Watch Vooza’s hilarious video on digital detoxing before you unplug
As a public service announcement, I link to this video about the dangers of unplugging and going on a digital detox: "It just makes me want to light
Vacations and the Victorians: A Kind of Natural Experiment
I've been thinking a lot about vacations and leisure recently. Not because I feel I don't have enough of either: I'm lucky enough to have an employer who
“It isn’t a rejection of technology and connectedness, but a reclaiming of control over it. Brands can help people with that.”
This 2012 presentation on digital detoxes, Zenware, and other efforts to buy escapes from distraction by Kasi Bruno, Director of Strategy and Cultural Insight at Young & Rubicam
The greatest cellphone-free vacation of all time
I've followed digital sabbaths and cellphone-free vacations for a while, but everybody else can give it up now: Peter Higgs wins. The media spotlight has often been too
Survey on digital detox
The Huffington Post reports that a "recent report from consumer research company SDL" that interviews 4000 people from the US, UK and Australia about their travel habits reveals
“New technologies breed new attitudes and habits so fast, sometimes, they hide”
Occasionally you run across a phrase that strikes you as well-constructed or elegant; then every rare once in a while you find one that you think, "I gotta
“disconnection is the closest I’ve come to living in another dimension”
Seattle Times columnist Mónica Guzman wrote a piece last month about going device-free for a week while vacationing in Colorado: It’s a culture shock, disconnection, if you’re as
“I’d rather play Doodle Jump” than think about my life: Parks and Rec on digital detox
Somehow I managed to not see this episode of Parks and Rec when it was out last year. Genius.
“Digital decompression is good for everyone occasionally”
Gizmodo contributor Leslie Horn writes about her recent tech-free vacation in "The Right Way to Disconnect from Technology on Your Next Vacation:" a vacation isn't a vacation unless
“unplugging completely was something she wanted from me for her birthday”
This Huff Po piece on politicians staying connected when going on vacation has this vivid anecdote: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said her daughter is turning 10 on