Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Do you dare to live without computers?? Just for one day??

http://shutdownday.org/ is experimenting a global effort(a crazy idea) of turning off the computers on March 24 to prove that mankind built the computers and networks to help do things efficiently not to be addicted or be dependent of it. Of course , the computers and internet is a great resource for research, learning, organizing, gaining knowledge, buying stuff and entertainment but its also a big time waster. One of the team members, Michael, states that its too easy to get absorbed and start living a virtual life but its great to have one day where we all can remember what the real world is about. In today's world of Google, you tube, my space, gmail, yahoo and many other web 2.0 applications/ portals where we have more friends online than offline, do you think that you can restrain yourself from hitting that tiny power button on your desktop/laptop for just 24 hours?

If you wanna express your vote or you might just wanna know out of curiosity that how many people think they can be offline for one day, go to their website shutdownday.org.
You can also express your ideas/views about this experiment on their forum Here.
If you wanna know more about shutdown day, go to their blog here.


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