Shutdown Day, 24th March!
17 Mar 2007 (Sat)Tony Targonski has just highlighted a new worldwide social experiment on the Internet: An open appeal to all to shutdown their computers for 24 hours on 24th March (Sat), the day of Nexus 2007!! The online challenge: “Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?”
Here’s a humorous video made in support of Shutdown Day 2007, to show that “You don’t have to turn your computer on to have fun with it”:
The rationale is great, but the day is a problem! So unfortunately, for all attendees and organizers of Nexus 2007 in Singapore, the answer would have to be a resounding “No!”
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Posted by J.K. in Art, Events, Humor, Media, Video | blog reactions | |
March 18th, 2007 at 2:36 am
You are right, organizers would have to sit this one out. As for attendees, they don’t really _need_ their laptops to attend talks about technology, do they?
March 18th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Makes sense… except that the conference is supposed to be highly interactive — verbally and via the Internet. So laptops are almost indispensable.
July 27th, 2007 at 1:50 am
oh you are correct…