Severe Storms Shed Light on Hi-Tech Addictions
While waiting for my turn at the barber shop about a week ago, I was amused to read an article by Kim Hart and Ellen Nakashima in the Washington Post about a family that evacuated their home in order to go to a hotel with internet access:
…the Rasch family packed a laptop Thursday evening and moved to a hotel, where they could log on and feel plugged in.
“We couldn’t connect to the outside world without the power and the Internet,” Jacob Rasch said. “We had no idea what was going on.”
It’s one thing to be without power. It’s another to be without information.
If you cannot go a couple of days without the Internet, you may have a harmful internet addiction. Washington Post reader Nancy Bowen seems to agree; she wrote a letter to the Post with five “lessons to be learned from this non-emergency.” What are your priorities during a power outage?