{"id":7320,"date":"2013-11-07T00:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T00:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=7320"},"modified":"2013-11-19T19:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:45:34","slug":"the-few-remaining-blank-spaces-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/07\/the-few-remaining-blank-spaces-on-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"the few remaining blank spaces on the map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from mat honan&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2013\/10\/honan\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Can\u2019t Get Away From It All? The Problem Isn\u2019t Technology \u2014 It\u2019s You&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The practice of taking an intentional break from technology and civilization is probably as old as technology and civilization. But it seems increasingly urgent now, in an era when the Internet\u2014and thus most of the planet\u2014is as close as an iPhone. We go to seek <em>waldeinsamkeit<\/em>, as the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson described it\u2014the feeling of being alone in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>This feeling is prominent in our written history. In <em>Heart of Darkness<\/em>, the protagonist, Charles Marlow, is driven by his desire to visit the few remaining blank spaces on the map. That is, more or less, how many of us plan our vacations today. Of course, the rivers and valleys and borders were long ago mapped; our blank spaces are the few remaining holes in the global communications network. We go where it\u2019s impossible to connect, no matter what. But quite soon those gaps will all be filled. Before much longer, the entire planet will be smothered in signal, and we won\u2019t be able to find places that are off the grid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRING YOUR IPHONE INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, BUT RESIST THE URGE TO OPEN THE EMAIL APP.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from mat honan&#8217;s article &#8220;Can\u2019t Get Away From It All? The Problem Isn\u2019t Technology \u2014 It\u2019s You&#8221;: The practice of taking an intentional break from technology and civilization is probably as old as technology and civilization. But it seems increasingly urgent now, in an era when the Internet\u2014and thus most of the planet\u2014is as close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7372,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions\/7372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}