Hope you will continue to grace us with your presence! Catch those curve balls and throw them right back.
Anyway, onto your post, and its central themes. I want to do this. I want to throw my devices in the bin for a brief today. But, I realise, I wouldn't be able to talk to my friends. I would need to organise the day of digital abandonment using digital means.
We rely too much on it. Even if I escape it in the bedroom, in the kitchen, in the lounge, when I start the car to go somewhere, there's a screen. There are screens that line the streets, and screens to pay for the parking.
Screens to pay for a lunch. Screens to order from the menu.
I think one of the reasons I enjoy photography so much is it because it is just me, light, and the person I'm photographing. There's screens involved (Looking through a screen to compose a shot) - but trying to control nature and distill a moment is therapeutic.
That, and stopping to see the things you don't see everyday, the foliage, the bark, the leaves.