The Verge: I'm still here: back online after a year without the internet. Guy spends year disconnected from the internet, discovers that the internet is so entwined with life that he was missing out, and it didn't help him accomplish the things he thought it was keeping him from.

As a one-time Waldorf kid, who spent a good amount of growing up in a community that avoided technology and the popular culture, I've spent some time thinking about this, and come to similar conclusions.