Disconnect if you dare
How can we do nothing in this culture of immediacy? Permanently glued to our screens, we end up with our brains turned to mush and the attention span of a goldfish, constantly on high alert...
The alarm rings, I open my eyes, and the usual little mechanism kicks in. It feels as if my brain has been waiting for this moment all night long, as if I had switched my hard drive to 'off' for seven hours, but the break was too long. My first reflex is to touch my smartphone under the pillow, within reach, ready to use, with an uncontrollable urge to look at it, even as a little inner voice speaks up.