Can you shutdown? Einen Tag ohne Computer?
missycola @ 7:10 pm Kategorie: DiaryENGLISH:
This is a (worldwide) project and it asks if YOU are able to shutdown your computer for one day, on March 24th (Saturday).
Can you? Is it possible to have your computer a whole day next to you without starting it? Without checking your emails?
How many people start their day with switching on the computer in the morning? I guess, there are a lot…worldwide… If I now think about the positive effects for nature’s health if everyone would switch off the computer for only one day…amazing. I will join. Group “contests” like these motivate me.
On the shutdown website it says:
It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate! Shutdown your computer on this day and find out! Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?
More information at The shutdown day
The project reminds me of the offline-day that we used to celebrate on March 1st (Labour Day in Germany). “Our” offline day also restricts mobile phones and digital cameras. Everything digital has to shut down (be switched off) for that day. The computer shutdown will be an easy thing…I think. I will see. I need to plan something for the 24th of March. ;o)
GERMAN:
Am 24. März wird als menschliche Gemeinschaft weltweit der Versuch gestartet, den Computer nicht anzuschalten. Der Powerknopf ist tabu. Einen ganzen Tag, 24 Stunden, ohne den Computer zu benutzen. Geht das? Na klar geht das. Entlastet die Kernkraftwerke und den Geldbeutel und schont die Umwelt. Außerdem sollten gerade die Computerabhängigen unter uns (an die eigene Nase fass) mal lernen, einen Tag ohne auszukommen. Ich kann schon ‘ohne’, aber wenn der Laptop den ganzen Tag neben mir liegt und mich anlächelt, wirds bestimmt nicht einfach. Wir werden sehen.
Wer mitmachen möchte, der merke sich das Datum Samstag, den 24. März 2007. Weitere Infos gibt es auf der Webseite the shutdown day.
4 comments to “Can you shutdown? Einen Tag ohne Computer?”
Good to hear that you will join the switch-off-group and good to know that you are a computer ‘addict’, too, hehe. I hope I don’t forget it on the 24th. We need to remind each other just before that day. ;o)
Ah, we know that we can - we already did it three times (or two??) on our Kieler Offline-Tag!
But at the moment I don’t want to. Had a day off last Sunday, when I was ill, that’s enough. And on the 24th I have to sit in the British Library and do some research… Sunday would have been better.
:o)
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Wow. I like the idea and I will definitely try to join, but I need to find something to keep me busy on the 24th of March! I am also one of those people who turn their computer on on their way to the toilet in the morning when they just got up…
Sandra | 25.February 2007 at 1:14 am