My Year of Tech and Relaxation by August Lamm

Arriving at Camp Grounded, visitors passed through a “cultish tech-check tent run by the International Institute of Digital Detoxification,”4 where they recited a pledge, watched a five-minute video involving sock puppets, and handed their phones over to camp guides wearing hazmat suits, who sealed them in plastic bags labeled “biohazard.” They agr

I stopped looking at my phone because I was looking at something else, something so absorbing that I couldn’t turn away.