A New York Times article on the recent 12 hour Blackberry outage discusses information junkies in our modern age. Merlin Mann offers his sympathies:
“Sure, I kid the BlackBerry addicts, but I do sympathize. Left to my own devices, I’d check email a hundred times a day and can still half-ruin a vacation with the constant need to “just check in.†Electronic fiddling is a lot like tobacco addiction and a lot easier to get away with nowadays.”
I can understand the need to stay connected, but can’t personally comment on the Blackberry situation since I purposely do not use a smart phone. Were any OZaC readers affected? What did you do instead? Has the outage made you reflect on your own information consumption habits?
