I was in the pool at a resort in Bali recently and saw something I found most disturbing.

Of the dozen or so people I could see at that moment, every last one of them was looking at a phone. This includes 3 or 4 people who were actually in the water!

Ironic as it is that I should post this on social media, but I just got the overwhelming idea that something has become very messed up. These people were supposedly relaxing and yet they couldn't unplug long enough to take a dip in bloody pool!

Aware that I am also guilty of feeling the need to constantly know the footy score, the latest in world news and most recent instance of someone in heavy weather being wrong, I have decided to pack up the wife and kids to somewhere remote for the next school holidays. We're going to unplug for two weeks in a remote and unconnected corner of Indonesia and if the world ends (or agreement is reached in the 9/11 thread), we'll find out when we get back.

It is kind of a social experiment on ourselves as I don't know whether we'll come out the other side better or worse for the experience, but for the kids (9 & 6) I'm hoping it stokes their imaginations, and for the boss and I, I'm hoping for deeper conversations, free of distraction, to be able to think deeply and to improve concentration.

I think the ability to concentrate may be the biggest victim of the modern world's constant connectedness.

What thoughts and experiences have others had in this realm?