http://tlf.disqus.com/The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.enFri, 06 Jun 2008 02:47:38 -0000http://techliberation.com/2008/06/05/a-technology-sabbath-to-alleviate-info-overload/#comment-1454623Only 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>So, if you want to keep up with the kids, you shouldn't be handicapping yourself.ChadFri, 06 Jun 2008 02:47:38 -0000