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.

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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?