Geek in Review: On the Benefits of Going Off The Grid

Published: July 18, 2007, 3:22 pm

This week's Geek in Review was inspired by my technology-free vacation last week, where I learned the benefits of going off the grid:This ultra-connected world we live in is really cool, isn't it? Any information we could possibly want is literally at our fingertips: we get directions from Google Maps sent straight to our cell phones, our GPS devices ensure that we're never lost (despite our best efforts) and the days of wondering what that actor's name is, or what the lyric to that song actually was (Alex the Seal? What the hell does that mean?) are gone forever, replaced by just a few keystrokes at Google or Wikipedia. Do you know the actual phone numbers of the people you call regularly? Or is that just saved in your cell phone? When you're online, do you actually know your passwords, or are they auto-saved as well? Do you have a roadmap in your car, or a Thomas Guide? What would you do if you got lost without a cell phone or a GPS device? Have you ever stopped to think

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