Life in the slow lane

In a media/connectivity saturated world, it is blissful to forcibly cut oneself off from the shackles of devices - and commune with nature /one's consiousness.
FT.com / Arts
Whatever the reasons for their existence, the small enclaves where people are still cut off from the world of internet, e-mails and mobile phones do have a lesson for us. Communication is the most basic tool of a civil society, but there is little debate about whether there can be too much of it, about the fracturing of the language or about the nervousness we feel when we cannot be in total contact, all the time. There is also a nagging feeling that those who opt out may have retained something important that the rest of us have become terrified of: a bit of peace.