No technology

Start: Monday 10th
End: Tuesday 11th

My world without technology:
When faced with the idea of giving up all technology for a day, it seems like an easy task. But, its always easier said than done, as with many other things. Though, my inclination has always been towards limited use of technology, coming to college has made me dependent on it fully.This assignment wasn't exactly Walden pond, but it did help me personally to clear my head of all the stresses that accompany technology.
I was able to get out of town for a day and go up to visit a few friends at FSU. There we spent the entire day just walking around campus, talking about my second favorite thing: art history. But it wasn't simply the much needed conversation that I enjoyed, but the lack of phone calls asking me to pick up something on the way to class, or texts asking me questions that I didn't know the answer to in the first place. My day without technology was more than a day. It was a breath of fresh air.
I remember as a child, being able to lay out in the front yard and watch the clouds go by, thinking about anything and everything. That was my one day. Among the Platonic and Socratic arguments, the admiring of the beautiful architecture, and taking time to enjoy lunch with friends, were the reminders of how fast paced our lives really are with technology at hand. Our dependence on technology is a bad thing in my opinion; but then again, ive always wished to live in the 18th century. Our education has been transformed by the technology that we are forced to work with, and so will our society be changed by it. The faster the technology improves, the less time we will spend staring at the clouds, wondering where they will be tomorrow.
That is the value of a technology deficient world: happiness in simplicity.