A professor at the University of Central Florida challenged her students to unplug and live a technology-free life for five days, and most discovered they were incapable of doing so. “It’s something I’m doing to get us in touch with where our humanity is,” said faculty member Mary Ann Murdoch in coverage in the Orlando-Sentinel. “Are they really in charge of these devices, or are all these devices in charge of them?” Only two of 26 students in Murdoch’s English composition class were able to relinquish cell phones, iPods, portable CD players, text messaging, e-mail, computers, TVs, DVDs, and video games. The rest conceded that they were dependent on technology.
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