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The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
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A “Technology Sabbath” to Alleviate Info Overload?

Started by TLF · 3 months ago

Last week I noted how I struggled to get through a 5-day vacation without the Internet, blogs, e-mail and my other daily informational inputs. I was both trying to see if I could do it and also giving in to the pleading of my family, who had been asking me to stay away from the [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • Chad

    5 months ago

    Only old people would consider such abstinence and sacrifice as some sort of accomplishment - because they can remember a time when such technology wasn't so throughly intertwined with their life.

    But for the kids, who've had their own cell phone since kindergarten, these things aren't even technology - but rather are part and parcel of their identity and development - like additional lobes of their brain. Confronting them with the idea of giving up these things is no less a more ridiculous notion than having a limb amputated.

    So, if you want to keep up with the kids, you shouldn't be handicapping yourself.
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