If you are old enough, you might remember the promise of a shorter workweek as the decades passed, but something remarkable happened: the digital age snuck up on all of us and changed the dynamics. The problem manifests itself most vividly when you finally get some time to yourself like this Memorial Day weekend. The doctor’s advice for your three day respite from work: turn off your devices, unplug and simply relax.
There's a long list of horribles associated with our new, always-on-digital lives: You are dumber. You are more stressed. You are losing sleep, and more depressed.