Tech usage and addiction inspires a billion-dollar mindfulness industry. CNBC's Uptin Saiidi attempts three days without any digital gadgets.
Yet, it's perhaps ironic that Pierson's solution to unplug is on an app on the mobile device"The phone is just a piece of metal, plastic and glass," he said. "So, if it's sitting on the table, it's actually doing nothing to you. It's just sitting there, it's an object. But our relationship to it, I think, is not quite right."
While his proposed solution is to spend a few minutes each day to unplug, what would a more extreme version — like cutting out technology for three straight days — do for me?I instinctively kept reaching for my phone on impulse, and wanted to take pictures of a nice rice field at sunset or before indulging in a meal.
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