The title of this post refers to an epiphany I had over the New Year's weekend. The realization was about my relationship with technology, namely, I was exhibiting some of the symptoms of technology addiction. And I wasn't the only one in my family with email and Internet issues. My wife, who doesn't own a smartphone, would, by her own admission, be checking her email or surfing the Web when she should have been paying attention to our daughters. Clearly, neither of us have perfected the in-the-present art of Zen parenting. For those who follow my Psychology of Technology blog posts, you know that I write about the dangers of letting technology take over our lives and the importance of maintaining control over our technology use. But, I must confess that those ideas had been, up to New Year's weekend, more theory than reality. But I finally got the chance to test my theories cold turkey.
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