This month we challenge you to a digital detox. Start by turning off the tv, then pen a postcard instead of an email, postpone your phone calls or leave the laptop out of your leisure time. Aside from the constant ringing, tweeting and flickering that’s interrupting our lives, all this internet shizzle is changing our brains. “Technology is rewiring our brains,” said Nora Volkow, one of the world’s leading brain scientists. Constant bursts of information are not just disrupting in themselves, they’re undermining our ability to focus even when we’re not online.
So shut it all down, give your brain a break and tell us what happens (on a postcard of course).