Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
Life in the slow lane
11/12/2005 | 
Coverage
Toby Moore, Financial Times, Page 38
'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.
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