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Digital Sabbath with Bill Powers
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:30:14
Publish Date: 2021-12-02 16:25:02
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The vast majority of Americans are now Internet users and the number is growing year by year. And the number of cell phones in the U.S. is now roughly equal to the number of people in the country. And yet our unprecedented access to information and communication has a potential downside: people may get so absorbed in their ‘devices’ that it may impair our ability to focus on important things like family relationships. So former Washington Post writer William Powers and his family, living on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, set out to unplug from devices each weekend to create a kind of Digital Sabbath. Here’s the fascinating story of why they made this decision and how things worked out.
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