Life Unplugged

Came across an interesting article yesterday, and it doesn’t surprise me. Read this quote;  “For years, the idea of a digital sabbatical has appealed to the hyper-connected set.”

Why would something like this–need–emerge?

I’ve often mentioned to some that I feel that all this “connectedness” will eventually lead full circle to…the unplugged.

That to have a hardcopy of a book will be all the rage, fashionable, in vogue…the “thing to do” with the proliferation of e-everything.

Everyone has Smartphones?

The “Coming Thing” will be to go Dumb…or, perhaps (perish the thought!), altogether cellless.

Why?

Cause it’ll be counter. And there are always those who want to be different. If everyone’s jacked in, to be different will be to go opposite. There is also the very real issue of damaged relationships and stress from all this connectedness.

Ever been in a conversation with someone and their cell rang? Ever had said person reach for that thing like a gunfighter and answer it without so much as an “Excuse me” thrown your way…and suddenly you might as well be on the moon?

People have become more rude, attention deprived, and they don’t rest any more. Don’t allow their minds to wander. As I’ve also mentioned, how many out there really have an original thought in their head? How far off do you really think I am? If there are only so many seconds in one’s life, and most of those seconds revolve around sampling and surfing other people’s thoughts…what happens to your own?

I’m not advocating a return to the so-called “Stone Ages,” not at all.  There’s a lot of good coming from the Internet and its spinoffs. We just need to use these things wisely. Not get addicted to technology because our own lives aren’t (perhaps) as exciting as we’d like them. We need to take the control of our lives back where it belongs–us.  And just because we create something new, does not mean the death of all that came before. There’s a certain lure to some for what came before…a growing nostalgia for things past.

Time to ourselves.

Time to just look out a window….

Simpler times.

How funny that sounds, n’est-ce pas?

Well, I believe this will happen. As the article showed, it’s already happening to some, for whatever reason. And what do you think happened when our blogger unjacked?

He interacted on a much more personal level with people.

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