Reporter Kashmir Hill has written a fascinating series of articles called “Goodbye Big Five” (plus a technical follow-up with gory details) about systematically trying to block big tech companies from her family’s life, a week at a time.
- Week 1: Amazon — “I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.”
- Week 2: Facebook — “I Cut Facebook Out of My Life. Surprisingly, I Missed It.”
- Week 3: Google — “I Cut Google Out of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything.”
- Week 4: Microsoft — “I Cut Microsoft Out of My Life—or So I Thought.”
- Week 5: Apple — “I Cut Apple Out of My Life. It Was Devastating.”
- Week 6: Blocking Them All — “I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell.”
I found the thesis sentence in the last installment to be “Technology creates the problems that technology solves, and vice versa.” Which, invariable, made me think of…
