THIS WEEKEND: National Day Of Unplugging

A group of Jewish tastemakers is trying to promote a technology-free weekend with its first annual National Day of Unplugging.

Read the whole story: nytimes.com

Comments

[TigersEye]

06:22 PM on 03/19/2010

One reason to unplug:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/insidebelltown/archives/193094.asp

http://emf.mercola.com/sites/emf/archive/2010/01/21/us-senate-committee-confirms-dangers-of-cell-phones.aspx

[wdw505]

06:16 AM on 03/19/2010

yes go ahead turn off...............i will use your bandwidth

thanks

[Christine Maingard]

01:28 AM on 03/19/2010

What a wonderful idea! Should be a global movement.

Who is saying that these people are crazy to promote a national day of unplugging. It should be an international day of switching off. We don't live in the future, we always only live in the present moment and we mostly miss it because we don't even know how to switch off our minds from being elsewhere.

Dr Christine Maingard, Author of "Think Less, Be More" - http://www.thinklessbemore.com

[seedoubleyou]

06:22 PM on 03/18/2010

What, are these people, crazy? This is the twenty-first century. I am a man who actually lives in the FUTURE. That right, we all MADE it to the future! The future, pal! The FUTURE! When they used to make those films about what the future might look like someday, they were making those films about US! I ride a computerized electric train to work. My personal computer fits in a shirt pocket and is part of a vast Gibsonian network that covers the entire planet. We have devices that can burn tumors out of your head with LIGHT. Millions of people fly --that's right: FLY-- to and fro in the stratosphere every hour. You know how long it used to take to travel from Boston to San Francisco? It used to take your whole fre@kin life! Now people commute those distances like they were going down to the local pub. A man born two centuries ago would consider all the stuff we do everyday to be a mad fiction dreamed up by a lunatic (he mighta called it science fiction, but even THAT wasn't invented yet). So far still no flying cars or robot waiters, but they're comin', buddy. You KNOW they're comin'! It's ALL comin' this way. So, you think I'm giving ANY of that up for even a single minute? Ha. HA. And I say again: HA.