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In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in.

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.