By Michael Hickins, Wall Street Journal
Reboot, a Jewish non-profit based in New York, has a novel way to encourage people to take a day off from digital communication — it is handing out “sleeping bags” so people can put their smartphones “to sleep.”
It’s all part of the second annual National Day of Unplugging, which begins at sundown today and goes through sundown tomorrow. Reboot launched the day last year as a way of promoting its Sabbath Manifesto.
The group hopes that the National Day of Unplugging will inspire people to unplug one day of every week, and recapture the “real interconnections between people,” Tanya Schevitz, a spokesperson for Reboot told Digits. “People are overwhelmed by the relentless deluge of information in their lives.”
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