For years I have been thinking about the idea of an information fast. Time off the grid is essential to our sanity (I think it’s a religious right). But it is getting technically harder and socially less acceptable to be unavailable at all times.
This is a problem. This is not how we are wired as people.
This week The TImes published a piece about the Joys of Quiet. Worth reading:
ABOUT a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most interested in, he began — I braced myself for mention of some next-generation stealth campaign — was stillness.
see the whole piece here: The Joy of Quiet – NYTimes.com.
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