
Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too

Social media is a portable version of you and your values. A digital doppelgänger that interacts with the internet on your behalf, even after you have logged off or left a service.
Chris Dancy • Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too
There is no industry on Earth that is not being torn asunder by the conversion to digital content.
Chris Dancy • Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too
The mountains of information we receive in a single moment make it next to impossible to think at times, so we often reduce all decisions down to basic data.
Chris Dancy • Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too
These two versions of myself along with ten different Twitter accounts and at least two different LinkedIn accounts ran my digital life from 2008 to 2012.
Chris Dancy • Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too
We don’t need a virtual reality, we have a reality. We don’t need innovation, we need compassion. We don’t need to fix the problems of the world with technology, we need to fix technology with our human spirit.
Chris Dancy • Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too
I never thought about what to say online, I thought about which account could say it.
Chris Dancy • Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too
The problem is not the mountains of data you process, nor is it a lack of filters for your information. No, our challenge is that we are using legacy software, our reptile brain, with our newest app, the neocortex. This is exactly where technology should swoop in to aid us. The problem is that the data presented to us every day is filtered by techn
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Becoming digitally Amish is not really an option. And there is no prescribed length of time you could take a break from your screen that will actually make life ok again. If you think that the former tech bros in Silicon Valley—all of whom are now having second thoughts about what they have created—are going to find a way to fix this, think again.
Chris Dancy • Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too
No one downloads an app, they download a habit.