Bella English:

They are members of a small cohort: the young and unplugged. While their friends, relatives, and colleagues have every gadget known to mankind, the Kalfs have made a conscious decision not to blog, tweet, or instant message. They e-mail only when necessary. And they say they're better off without all that stuff.

"After a while, you find [that the gadgets] erode time as opposed to saving time, and time is the only thing we've really got that is our own."

"Worshiping at the church of the pixel comes at the expense of real-life experience."

"I find the whole thing very voyeuristic."

Bruce Sterling:

"Poor folk love their cellphones!"

Andy Milonakis:

Let Me Twitter Dat

Geoff Manaugh:

Ever since a friend of mine once claimed – very late and after many drinks – that "Twitter is the death of humanism," I've been regularly thinking about how a simple note-taking technology could inspire such apparent dread in so many people.

Sage Stossel:

Hu Jintao joined the group "I Bet I Can Find A Million People Who Don't Care Michael Phelps Smoked Weed."

Robert Lantham:

Instant messaging. Twittering. Facebook updates. These 21st-century literary genres are defining a new "Lost Generation" of minimalists who would much rather watch Lost on their iPhones than toil over long-winded articles and short stories.

Wired differently