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

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

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

E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops (excerpts)

Excerpts of E. M. Forster’s 1909 futuristic dystopia The Machine Stops

By Mo Lotman | January 8, 2020 | Automation, Culture, Environment, Philosophy, Relationships, Society | Atrophy, Communication, Computers, Decadence, Dependence, Dystopia, E. M. Forster, Fiction, Internet, Nature, Progress, Social Commentary, Synthetic Food, travel

A Call for Ideas

Publisher Mo Lotman looks for ideas and suggestions as he embarks on a nationwide trip this summer.

By Mo Lotman | June 20, 2018 | Community, Culture, Society | Connection, Ideas, Silicon Valley, travel

Highway Privacy: It Tolls for Thee

Massachusetts moves to all-electronic tolling on its toll roads. Your state may be next. But while it speeds travel, it removes another freedom: that of travelling anonymously.

By Mo Lotman | September 21, 2016 | Automation, Privacy, Transportation | AET, Anonymity, Cashless, Data, Highways, Maintenance, Massachusetts Turnpike, Pay-by-Plate, Taxation, Tolls, travel

Story, Short-Circuited

I’m a live storyteller. One of those people popping up all over America right now who stands on a stage [...]

By Katie Liesener | May 28, 2015 | Society | relationships, road trips, self-driving cars, smart phones, story, storytelling, The Moth, travel