Screen-free Living Pillows

"It's amazing, since he was prescribed cannabis he hardly uses his phone at all!"

"I'd like a week off without any business related e-mail on my home computer."

"Just one more site!" "I'm totally, like, in control!" "I can quit anytime I feel like it..."

"Now that's what I call a high definition display.".

View from the Window

2001: A Space Odyssey - Updated

"C’mon, Sara. Like you wouldn’t consider – even for a second – accepting an iPhone from the devil."

"I don't allow cell phones during breakfast. That's why she's talking into her pop tart."

"Behold, Penny. The 'Wi-Fi dead zone.'"

"Hello, police? I'd like to report some suspicious activity. A youth without a phone in his hand."

"I bet you kids are all losing your minds without a wi-fi signal."

The days before television

Wendel maps his trip to the germaphobe society headquarters.

This way to Utopia. . . No cell or wifi reception here.

"Isn't this nice? No screens. Just the majesty of the here and now."

"We're watching television less and making our own fun more."

'It's too nice to be inside watching cable! Now, go outside and play on some.'

Sell me your souls and I'll make all cell phones and computers go away."

Mobile phones vs books

"In my day we had trimphones."

'Yeah, neighborhood crime. That's what I watch all the time 'cause our TV is broken.'

"Anywhere that doesn't have TVs, computers, radios, ipods, cell phones, or video games."

The anti-social network: 'In other words, you want to help the internet blow itself up.'

"Mom, I can't take the stress of social media. I'm running away from my home page!"

"It's summer, go outside and play."

"I'm being punished. For the next hour I have to stay out of WiFi range."

'Why don't you guys go out and play catch?"

"Should we watch the lighthearted workplace comedy or the dystopian workplace drama?"

Close Encounters of the Digital Kind

"They don't call them reruns anymore... they call them déjà-views."

'Peace at last.'

"Wouldn't you rather watch it on the big screen?"

'If you don't have a TV, what do you arrange your furniture around?'

"It's the latest internet challenge, 30 mins no screen time."

'I haven't felt this giddy with freedom since I turned off my Blackberry!'