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Shutdown Day 2008 - Can you? Will you?

By admin ⋅ April 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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banner100x100 Shutdown Day 2008 - Can you? Will you?Shutdown Day 2008 is your opportunity to be part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the Internet. The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day on Saturday 3rd May 2008.

I think we can all agree that being asked to go without your computer for a day is a big ask, especially if you’re addicted to e-mail, IM’ing, surfing the web. But if you could find some other interesting activities to do for just a day other than sitting at your PC, you may discover something about yourself and your priorities.

Here’s a youtube video they produced, pitching the event:

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