Wired, but Drawing the Line
Katie Hafner,
New York Times,
Oct 11, 2002
From the lifestyles section of OLDaily: the blinking red light on my phone continues to flash, as it has without interruption since I returned from Anaheim a couple of weeks ago. I don't wear a watch. My cell phone is... somewhere. Like the author of this article I cycle to work (as I did in Edmonton, and Brandon before that) and instead of jam standwiches I have this week been eating the batch of pea soup I made last weekend. I still attack sticky-notes to the wall, my desk is a mass of paper, and my IPaq has been blinking mournfully at me for days. I think it's true: "There’s something about working with technology that makes people want to become Quakers." For me, it's about the need for stability and simplicity as I spend my days in a dynamic and complex world. Yes, I need my laptop and my connectivity (but I would so dearly love to trade the one I currently use for a sleek tablet). It's also about being selective: about me defining the technology I use rather than the technology I use defining me. As I say to people sometimes, "I'm the biggest Luddite I know."
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