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Slave to technology: I wanna disconnect myself right now... 

It's the 1994 Reading Festival. I'm 20-years-old, with hair halfway down my back, and 100m away from me is the writhing ball of muscle that is Henry Rollins.

It’s the 1994 Reading Festival. I’m 20-years-old, with hair halfway down my back, and 100m away from me is the writhing ball of muscle that is Henry Rollins.

This is a man of amazing punk rock heritage, and he’s abusing the crowd and screaming lyrics from the new album “Weight”.

That was back in 1994.

I didn’t have an email account yet.

Things that did not exist included Facebook, MySpace, affordable mobile phones, decent websites, broadband, 3G, online Travel Agents and so on and so forth.

The Rollins Band had launched into a song 20 years ahead of its time call “Disconnect:”

(You can see me with long curly hair just off to the right…. at about the 43 second mark.

“Don’t like to think too much, it makes me think too much,
It keeps my mind on my mind…

….. All the things that they’re saying & doing
When they pass me by just fills me up with noise
It overloads me

The same lyrics are even more poignant today in the context of the digital onslaught which is dominating our lives.

Weren’t we meant to control it, not the other way around?

Here are just some of the way it bleeds work into our homes and personal space:

  1. Watching TV whilst you play with an app
  2. Bringing that mobile phone to the family dinner table
  3. Checking email incessantly
  4. Your social media addiction
  5. Needing “likes” to feel validated both personally and professionally

Technology should be generating more space in our lives. But instead, it just shoe horns more and more in. We aren’t getting more done, just spinning bigger wheels, more data, with less depth and time to be human.

And then, because everyone else is doing it, it suddenly seems normal. But it’s not.

Get back to being human. Get away from it all. Go on a holiday. Get the human touch.

Book with a Travel Agent – a real one.

Are you addicted to technology? Let us know how you free yourself from its grip in the comments below…