Hi Scott and Steve !
I found this article very informative and thought i'd post here because both of you have turned your cell phone off recently during your visit to Amma- Unplugging from the Technological world we live in today and nourishing your Soul/Spirit. We can all benefit from reading this. Perhaps either of you can share what it was like to step away from your cell phones and Internet(?)
Men have become the tools of their tools --Henry David Thoreau
Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology with Sherry Turkle--by Krista Tippett, syndicated from onbeing.org, Jul 01, 2013 Krista Tippett, host: Sherry Turkle founded and directs the intriguingly titled MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She made waves with her book Alone Together; it was widely reviewed as a call to "unplug" our digital gadgets. But as I've read her and listened to her speak, I hear Sherry Turkle saying something more thought-provoking: that we can lead examined lives with our technology. That each of us, in our everyday interactions, can choose between letting technology shape us and shaping it towards human purposes, even towards honoring what we hold dear. Engaging Sherry Turkle on this is full of usable ideas — from how to declare email bankruptcy to teaching our children the rewards of solitude — a core human experience more elusive for their generation. And in technology as in life, it seems, discontent can be the beginning of wisdom.
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http://www.dailygood.org/story/469/alive-enough-reflecting-on-our-technology-with-sherry-turkle-krista-tippett/http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=4057
