Paul Miller

Technology Addiction – The Next Evolution Of Man Or A Global Threat

Technology Addiction bed iphone Technology Addiction – Do you ever get the feeling that you’re too dependant on technology? Do you even think that your technology use is excessive? Now I’m not talking about someone who works in IT. Generally, I have a healthy split between family life, friends and my technology addiction.

Paul Miller took a brave step forward when he spent a year living life without the comforts that technology afford people. Some might argue that such comforts come at a price. But is it worth it that a technology addiction comes at the expense of real human interaction? (more…)

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Finding Paul Miller – A Year Without The Internet

Year Wirhout Internet Paul Miller

I have to say that when I first thought about the journey that Paul Miller took, I was confronted by my own inner demons of what my life would be without the Internet. You see, Paul Miller undertook to stop using the Internet for a whole year. No emails, no Google Maps, no Reddit, no Twitter, no Facebook, no reviews of the latest movie or restaurant or accommodation. He took a brave step back to 5 August 1991, into where we came from… the unknown time before we had the Internet.

On 6 August 1991, the Internet became publicly available. Tim Berners-Lee posted a summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This heralded the birth of a new phenomenon of the human race that changed the world as we knew it. (more…)

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