Unplug if you dare

How can we do nothing in this culture of immediacy? Constantly glued to our screens, we end up with "mushy brains" and a attention span no better than a goldfish, living in a state of permanent alert...

"The alarm goes off, I open my eyes, and the usual routine kicks in. It’s as if my brain has been waiting all night for this moment—as if I’d turned off my hard drive for seven hours, but the pause lasted too long. My first instinct is to reach for my smartphone under the pillow, right at my fingertips, ready for use, with an uncontrollable urge to check it, even as a small inner voice begins to speak."

Lulu, our heroine, is young, dynamic, and hyper-connected. If, like her, you feel lost in this informational chaos, if you feel that time is slipping away in this "dictatorship of now," and if you struggle to let go of your phone—if you feel the need to switch to "offline mode" sometimes—then this book is for you.

Throughout the book, Lulu’s inner voice—not the one of "I must" and "I should," but the voice of intuition—whispers to her that this object we hold so often, like a modern-day flint tool, sometimes prevents us from truly being present to live this one and only earthly life, filled with its share of troubles and joys.