Three years ago, a journalist for Gizmodo named Kashmir Hill wanted to understand what life was like without “Big Tech.” Far from a “digital detox” retreat—the kind of which were popular with exceedingly plugged-in, very online types of mid-20s and early-30s folks—Hill’s experiment with technology abstinence was colored by restrictions. Swearing off Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon meant no iPhone, no Android phone, no MacBook, no PC running Windows, and no Chromebooks, and that’s just hardware.

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