The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your XBOX 360, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. Simple, but not at all easy. Like millions of others before you, you’ll be shocked at just how difficult – yet also how life-changing – a week spent unplugged can really be.
The guys at Adbusters have been doing the above campaign which used to be dubbed TV Turnoff Week, for quite a few years now. I think it’s a great exercise in general even if we don’t totally disconnect ourselves from technology but just take a break from it all. Go outside, take a walk, play a sport, read a book. We do need some form of balance in our lives and I feel this initiative could be a very rewarding exercise. I don’t agree with it being just one week though… this should be a weekly habit where you take time off from the Robot-Race and just chill with a world other than the virtual.
Renew yourself, Disconnect.
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