When my god-daughter was undertaking a 40-hour famine at her college in Adelaide to raise awareness of world hunger, she was asked to give up two out of three things – food, furniture and technology.
She chose food and furniture. "I felt I couldn't live without technology."
On the walk to the boarding gate to catch my flight to Kota Kinabalu this week, I overheard a conversation between a father and his crying son.
"If you don't stop, I am going to take away your iPad, see how you do without your games and movies," said the father.
The boy cried even harder.
Last week, I was on Twitter and came across a tweet @Empressrox from Kathleen Tan of AirAsia. "My insane work schedule kept me away fm my social space. A good fren actually called me wondering if I m ok bcoz I hv been absent!"
I have to confess I am as addicted to technology as my god-daughter, the young boy and Kathleen. I have all the signs of addiction.
- I deny it.
- I hide my devices under the bedcovers.
- It's the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night.
- I do it surreptitiously. Under the table or using my handbag as cover.
- I do it every spare moment I have.
So it is perhaps for my sanity as much as others around me that I raised the idea of an experiment with Luke Clark, editor of Discovery Channel Magazine for Novus Media Solutions.
Full story:
www.webintravel.com//blog/unplugged-480-an-experiment-in-survival-are-you-game_3295 
