We are up on the Huffington Post:
If you walk around with ear-buds shielding you from the world; if you panic when you can’t get reception on your iPhone; if you tweet or post status updates about what you are eating, you need to join the National Day of Unplugging.
Those committed to the March 20 event sponsored by the Jewish think-tank Reboot, include Ken Goldberg, Director of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media.
“Technology is quite seductive but patience is still a virtue,” said Goldberg who is a member of the Reboot network. “Patience has never been my strong point, but I’m learning that periods of inaccessibility put the world into context: the alternative is a ‘beige’ existence where everything is equivalent. As the Rabbis warned in the tale of the Golem, technologies are extremely helpful as long as we remember how to unplug them.”
Goldberg and his wife, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, wrote a poem titled “Yelp” (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg), for the launch of the Sabbath Manifesto and the National Day of Unplugging, that they have turned into a video.
Read the whole post here.