PERSONAL EXPERIMENT: TRY A TECHNOLOGY FAST For one day, see if you can survive without your car, TV, computer, or other technology. Bicycle to the farmers market and bring home some bounty in your backpack or basket. Work your way leisurely through the Sunday paper, the accumulating magazine pile, or that page-turner gathering dust on your night ta

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Today, we are rapidly becoming ‘tech-vexed’ – my word for the gradual yet relentless seduction of computerised life. The COVID-19 pandemic simply accelerated a trend: many of us are now more intimately connected to smartphones than to nonmediated relationships with people. The net result of this insular life is that relationships with ourselves and... See more

Arriving at Camp Grounded, visitors passed through a “cultish tech-check tent run by the International Institute of Digital Detoxification,”4 where they recited a pledge, watched a five-minute video involving sock puppets, and handed their phones over to camp guides wearing hazmat suits, who sealed them in plastic bags labeled “biohazard.” They agr

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