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Again I reference my recent vacation in Quebec. Yes, I brought my laptop and yes I checked some emails. I kept it to a minimum and I'm the guy who wrote the arc on email bankruptcy.

One thing the study didn't study (ahem) was the number of people who bring their smartphones with them and check their emails that way. I spend a lot of time observing people (even when I'm on vacation) and I see lots more people walking around with smartphones and pdas than I do with laptops and notebooks.

Of course, RIM's recent travails (Black Day for BlackBerry, BlackBerry Shutdown Rattles Earth and Planet Survives BlackBerry Shutdown (nice little arc, that)) would probably skew those results if they were to be had.

I know from my trainings that the majority of people draw their identity from the interactions of those around them. We are not real until someone declares us to be real, so to speak. Or as George Bernard Shaw wrote, "Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn." Children's concept of death is to be alone. It seems that part of childhood stays with us, even in this information age. We (as a culture, as a group) seem to be so anxious not to be alone that we must be in contact with as many others as possible in order to believe we have value.

Hmm...I wonder if the art of meditation is going to go away. And with it self-awareness, self-exploration and (with their loss) self-love.

Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on this and other topics.

Links for this post:

• So I declared Bankruptcy...or was it Voluntary Simplification applied to the 'Net?

• New Communications Forum 2008 22-25 April 08 in Sonoma Valley, CA
• SUNY Marketing Professionals Conference at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, 11-13 June 08

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