“Being able to disconnect has become the status symbol that high-tech connection formerly was.”

 

“An Internet publicist of good reputation…recently confessed to me that her fondest ambition was to get offline and write a novel…set pen to paper.”

 

“Of course, everyone knows driving while chatting is dangerous.”

 

“I like to do arithmetic in my head so I don’t forget how.”

 

“I worry a bit that those things that are most important to me—spending time with my family, writing my novels, doing my martial arts practice—are slowly under assault by the very gadgets that I bought to make my life easier, smoother, better.”