From The Age via Whirlpool
Some call it the "secular Sabbath." For others it is "unplugged day." In Quebec, Canada, professional computer developers Denis Bystrov and Ashutosh Rajekar are organising a global "Shutdown Day" in May.
"I love technology. I'm not a Luddite. But I realised it was a problem when I would sit down to check my email and it was almost like I would wake up six hours later and find I was watching videos of puppies on YouTube.
"I'd try and think what I had been doing for the past two hours and I had no idea. I associate that kind of time loss with blackouts when you're drunk," she said.
"I thought it was just a problem that affected me and my geeky colleagues. But then I started hearing from Italians with similar issues, and Poles and Czechs, and I even got a query from someone in Colombia.
"So I realise it's not just an American problem but an international one," Stallings said.
How about yourself? Do you think we're too often connected to the computer and the internet?
Oh and the image has nothing to do with the news content. I just don't know what image to use to represent the news. ^^
Posted on 2008/05/01 02:30
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
登録日: 2007/12/04 23:16
Deathseeker
登録日: 2007/12/24 09:20
You should have used one of the blue screen of death. That would be most appropriate.
And yea, for me the PC is like almost impossible to live without...at least without huge adjustment beforehand and cutting myself off from all ties in the world. We are in an age where, as Martin Luther King Jr. put it, "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
登録日: 2007/12/04 23:16
Blue screen of death as in that one would do? ^^
College Student
登録日: 2008/04/18 10:15
film student
登録日: 2007/11/25 09:34
Huh. Well, I do the same sitting-down-and-wasting-time thing, but I'm always glancing at the clock so it doesn't really affect me like that. The only times I lose track of time like that is when I'm watching anime, in which case I start watching and end up looking out the window hours later to hear birds chirping.
Typographer
登録日: 2007/11/23 15:02
I don't really have a problem with disconnecting, but when I don't use my computer or the internet for a day, I usually have a lot of catching up to do. So, the idea seems like one that would appeal to me, but it's beyond implausible. One day without people using the internet will not happen, barring a freak global blackout.
And if Elton John think he can get the internet shut down for FIVE YEARS just because he says it should be, he's saying "good morning to the night".
Student (for-ev-er)
登録日: 2008/02/21 08:37
huh?...*yawn*
No, I know what you mean. Sometimes I think it takes me waaay too long to do something as simple as check my email. Places like DC.com pull me in, but no complaints.
