TrendCentral, daily email newsletter and web site featuring relevant trends and cool social happenings of the day called out the Reboot Sabbath Manifesto’s National Day of Unplugging.
“After nearly a decade of wiring ourselves within an inch of our lives only to discover that technology and the Web may be re-shaping our brains, shrinking our attention spans and possibly even making us dumber, it was inevitable that one day we’d start to say ‘enough is enough.’ For some, that day may be here. Sure, everyone knows a few holdouts who never opted into the digital deluge to begin with, but the concept of unplugging is gaining traction among those who most definitely opted in. Unplugging can take many forms; it can be temporary or permanent, limited to specific technologies or all-encompassing. And the reasons for doing it are endless, from Big Brother-style fears to a growing awareness that our behavior is scarily similar to that of lab rats. We can envision a time when unplugging, in one form or another, could become as commonplace as plugging in is today.”
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