Testimonies of the disconnected

"Not too long ago I was on it all day long," writes Juan Rodriguez in an essay in the Montreal Gazette, "it" being the Internet. "I felt buzzed and strangely empty." But when Rodriguez, a freelance writer, moved into a new apartment last year, he didn't bring the Net with him: Unhooking myself from the Net started as an experiment, after depending on it for work and recreation for nearly 20 years. If humans are basically creatures of habit, I wanted to know whether I could survive without bei...