Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?
Shutdown Day is a Global Internet Experiment whose purpose is to get people to think about how their lives have changed with the increasing use of the home computer, and whether or not any good things are being lost because of this.
The idea of Shutdown Day project is simple – just shutdown your computer for one whole day of the year and involve yourself in some other activities: outdoors, nature, sports, fun stuff with friends and family – whatever, just to remind yourself that there still exists a world outside your monitor screen.
As you can see with this blog, I am one of the gazillions of people who are connected via the InterWeb. Not just that, the mobile phone is almost always switched on, plus XBox, my whole life is almost mixed with the bits and bytes that traverse the wires circling around the world.
So can I still do things without the personal computer? Can you? Let’s just start with one single day, and then revisit how life is when there is no internet, where conversation is done face to face and not via the Messenger. Let’s try…it’s also cut down your electric bill, at least for a few dollars at least.
Sign up at http://shutdownday.com or here if you are on Facebook.
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