Log Out Day
Posted: November 20th, 2008 | 2 Comments »On a recent presentation at the EPFL about “the next ten years of the digital revolution” (slides) I explained that I think disconnection will be a key, with users pushing back technology to its true place to make it more effective. Korea (getting recognized as a laboratory for western society, and not only in my enthusiastic interviews ;) is as usual at the forefront, coming up with the Log Out Day that was organized on November 11.
Students of Seoul Women’s University in Gongreung-dong turn in their mobile phones on Log Out Day, November 11, designed by the university to free students from networks for a day.
Instead of using their mobile phones or Internet services, students hand-wrote postcards and sent them via regular mail.
A university official said the campaign was designed to give students the space to rediscover themselves after being lost in the flood of information that surrounds us every day.
What I especially like is the radicalism of an initiative that required students to send postcards.
But how long will the world’s post services still accept postcards?
Korea selfshooting in the foot…
Seen on this excellent blog, the Log Out Day at Seoul’s Women University, where student ‘trashed’ their cellphones to for an entire day to disconnect from the information overflood any always-connected people faces everyday.
Instead o…
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