…the unplugging movement is the latest incarnation of an ageless effort to escape the everyday, to retreat from the hustle and bustle of life in search of its still core.
Phones, computers, and tablets, once seen as a way of facilitating interpersonal interactions, are increasingly being seen as barriers when it comes to face-to-face interactions. In recent years, groups of adversaries to hyperconnectivity have emerged, often proposing days of unplugging, but as Casey N. Cep writes in The New Yorker, “Few who unplug really want to surrender their citizenship in the land of technology; they simply want to travel outside it on temporary visas.”
