PC Magazine’s Lance Ulanoff has embarked on an experiment that will thrust him into a world without technology. He is being dropped off in a cabin with a flashlight and food rations for a week, along with 60 notebook and 40 pens to document the experience. You can read his manifesto here. And as he says, it’s not all just for kicks, “apparently, the thought is high on the minds of many deep thinkers. Sudden changes in our global climate and the looming bird-flu pandemic have some believing that chaos is around the corner, and that figuring out how to function without technology may soon be just as important as learning how to live with it.”

After the trip he will piece together columns about his experience learning to live without (high) technology. But as someone wrote in the forums section, while the concept is interesting, the isolation in a remote cabin negates the real-world relevance of the exercise. What would be more interesting is to attempt a week living in the real world, doing everything you do normally, but using only technology from a specific era, say, the 1950’s, or the 1850’s. Oh well, either way, it might just be a fun read.

Via Gizmodo.