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A Week Without the Internet?

An NYU professor wasn't able to go a week with only a limited use of the Internet: I like to think of myself as only moderately, ordinarily addicted to the internet. I don?t have an iPhone. I don?t have a BlackBerry. I don?t have an iPad. I am barely involved with Facebook, and can?t stand Twitter. But as I think about sitting down to write my next book, I do wonder what it would be like to have uninterrupted hours of work ? long, luxurious stretches of time, unbroken by dipping into the internet, skimming through an article, scanning e-mail, buying groceries. To be working, in other words, like it was 1975. Dylan Thomas once wrote, ?The summer talked itself away,? and I am a little bit afraid of having to say, some months from now, ?The fall e-mailed itself away...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on October 02, 2010 (boomark / email).