Connectivity guru Thomas L. Friedman ( The World Is Flat ) goes cold turkey on digital communications while on holiday in deepest Botswana.
NEW YORK TIMES: If you travel long enough and far enough — like by jet to Johannesburg, by prop plane to northern Botswana and then by bush plane deep into the Okavango Delta — you can still find it. It is that special place that on medieval maps would have been shaded black and labeled: “Here there be Dragons!” But in the postmodern age, it is the place where my BlackBerry, my wireless laptop and even my satellite phone all gave me the same message: “No Service.” [MORE]
[NY Times]
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