Escaping Screens: A Tech-Free Travel Quest, Part II

A stranded American tourist shares the story of a six-month screen-free quest through India and Nepal just as the coronavirus explodes. Part II.

By Tom Grotewohl | August 12, 2020 | Cognition, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Society, Well-Being | Acceptance, Addiction, Art, Awareness, Boredom, Boundaries, Concentration, Conscientious Tech Use, Consciousness, Convenience, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Creativity, Distraction, Dystopia, Electronic Devices, Experience, Food, Ganges, India, Jungle, Localism, Lockdown, Meditation, music, Nature, Nepal, News, Obsession, Pandemic, Peace, Photography, Presence, Renunciation, Ritual, Sacred, Screen Sabbath, Serendipity, Smartphone, Social Media, Spirituality, Superficiality, Tech-Free, Time, Tranquility, travel, Wisdom, Writing

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Escaping Screens: A Tech-Free Travel Quest, Part I

An American tourist stranded in India shares his story: six months traveling without a screen, only to pick one up again just in time for the global meltdown.

By Tom Grotewohl | July 30, 2020 | Cognition, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Society, Well-Being | Acceptance, Addiction, Art, Awareness, Boredom, Boundaries, Concentration, Conscientious Tech Use, Consciousness, Convenience, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Creativity, Distraction, Dystopia, Electronic Devices, Experience, Food, Ganges, India, Jungle, Localism, Lockdown, Meditation, music, Nature, Nepal, News, Obsession, Pandemic, Peace, Photography, Presence, Renunciation, Ritual, Sacred, Screen Sabbath, Serendipity, Smartphone, Social Media, Spirituality, Superficiality, Tech-Free, Time, Tranquility, travel, Wisdom, Writing

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The Limits of Efficiency

Demanding convenience in every aspect of life might have some rather inconvenient effects: the atrophying of skills, self-worth, and wisdom.

By Mo Lotman | April 19, 2017 | Automation, Economics, Identity, Philosophy, Well-Being | Bangladesh, Capabilities, Compassion, Convenience, Driving, Drizly, Ease, Efficiency, Entitlement, Garment Workers, Happiness, Helplessness, Impatience, Inconvenience, Joy, Laziness, Peace, Reward, Self-Reliance, Walking, Wisdom

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Utopia: New and Improved

The most legendary public clash between the Cold War’s competing sides did not delve into philosophical or economic theory; it [...]

By David A. J. Reynolds | May 11, 2016 | Economics, Politics, Prediction, Society, Well-Being | Capitalism, Cold War, Communism, Democracy, Eric Schmidt, Evgeny Morozov, Google, Henri Vogt, Howard Segal, Jared Cohen, Jerzy Szacki, John Lane, Kentaro Toyama, Mor Jokai, Nicholas Negorponte, Nikita Khrushchev, Orville Wright, Peace, Richard Nixon, Soviet Union, Utopianism, Vaclav Havel

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