I am barely doing any preparation before disconnecting because I think I can experience how much I am truly reliant on technology. I have asked my mom to wake me up for school so I don't have to use an alarm, I have asked my family to not turn on the radio and I have already done all of the digital projects i need the night before. I think the easiest part of this will be abstaining from television because I don’t think I watch too much television normally so I don't think this will be a big change. The most challenging part of this expironment I think will be the boredom of normal life because I usually turn to technology when I have free time so I think it will be hard to just deal with boredom and nothingness. The easiest thing to give
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The easiest thing about disconnect was actually talking with friends because we all decided to disconnect on the same day so when we all ate lunch together, we actually had pretty insightful conversations that we wouldn't of had if we had technology. The hardest part of this assignment was just getting bored from time to time where you want to use technology but you can't. I read a lot during this assignment as well as completed a Rubix cube and all of my homework and extra credit for my classes. So disconnect did improve my productivity, but I speculate that if disconnect would go on for much longer it would actually decrease my productivity because more and more boredom would set in and I would end up doing really stupid stuff that would be pointless and time consuming. I would absolutely do this project again and would recommend that everyone tries it al least once. Disconnect didn't really affect my family, but when I told my sister what I was doing and suggested that she try it too, she responded “Why would I give up technology if I didn't need to?”. I think that is the nature of this whole project, to demonstrate that we as a society are so dependant on technology that we cannot perform simple tasks that humans have done for thousands of years as contently such as talking with
The easiest thing about disconnect was actually talking with friends because we all decided to disconnect on the same day so when we all ate lunch together, we actually had pretty insightful conversations that we wouldn't of had if we had technology. The hardest part of this assignment was just getting bored from time to time where you want to use technology but you can't. I read a lot during this assignment as well as completed a Rubix cube and all of my homework and extra credit for my classes. So disconnect did improve my productivity, but I speculate that if disconnect would go on for much longer it would actually decrease my productivity because more and more boredom would set in and I would end up doing really stupid stuff that would be pointless and time consuming. I would absolutely do this project again and would recommend that everyone tries it al least once. Disconnect didn't really affect my family, but when I told my sister what I was doing and suggested that she try it too, she responded “Why would I give up technology if I didn't need to?”. I think that is the nature of this whole project, to demonstrate that we as a society are so dependant on technology that we cannot perform simple tasks that humans have done for thousands of years as contently such as talking with