Interesting point below; yet I think of unplugging more like scheduling a diet – just having a few days where you eat less, and get hungry again…

The Pointlessness of Unplugging : The New Yorker

That is why, I think, the Day of Unplugging is such a strange thing. Those who unplug have every intention of plugging back in. This sort of stunt presents an experiment, with its results determined beforehand; one finds exactly what one expects to find: never more, often less. It’s one of the reasons that the unplugging movement has attracted such vocal criticism from the likes of Nathan Jurgenson, Alexis Madrigal, and Evgeny Morozov. If it takes unplugging to learn how better to live plugged in, so be it. But let’s not mistake such experiments in asceticism for a sustainable way of life. For most of us, the modern world is full of gadgets and electronics, and we’d do better to reflect on how we can live there than to pretend we can live elsewhere.

 

How Tech Is Creating Data Cravability To Make Us Digitally Obese Fast Co.Exist Gerd Leonhard

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