On Thursday, March 18, on the CBS Evening News, Katie Couric titled her Notebook “Unplug,” and borrowed from William Wordsworth’s famous line, the World Wide Web is too much with us.
“One nonprofit group called Reboot wants to do something about it. They’re declaring a National Day of Unplugging, beginning tomorrow at sunset. The idea started as a remembrance of the Jewish sabbath…but as USA Today pointed out…the principles are pretty universal.”
“Put down that blackberry, connect with loved ones, take a walk outside. An AOL study found that 59 percent of PDA users check their inboxes every time a message arrives. You’ve got mail? More like you’ve got an addiction.”
A video Yelp “asks people to cut the umbilical chord of data.”
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That’s a page from my notebook.
I’m Katie Couric, CBS News.
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