Crucial Thought » lifewithoutcellphones http://www.crucialthought.com Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:13:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Could you do without? http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/02/13/could-you-do-without/ http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/02/13/could-you-do-without/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:06:14 +0000 cmcraft http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/02/13/could-you-do-without/ Interesting piece about a Forbes editor doing without his cell phone and Blackberry for a week, oh and no email either.

It made him cry.

The money quote is that when he had to disconnect it wasn’t just cutting off communcation, it was cutting off connection. He meant that to indicate connection with other humans, in that at one point he wanted to connect someone in Bangalore with someone in Hong Kong, which he could not do without email.

Watch it and see what you think…

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