National Radio Quiet Zone

I may have used this video before, but it got me thinking about our digital age and what it means to us.

I drive around with my cellphone on all the time.

I am reachable.

That’s good when you have a family….it’s good to be reachable.

My inner “luddite” makes me wonder if that’s always good or necessary….to have a phone with you all the time.

We have a lot of personal electronic devices that we suppose are necessities now.

Here’s a community where that isn’t the case.

Because of some big dish installations, wifi and cell phone use is outlawed.

So, some other guys big technology trumps the “small guy’s technology”.

They even have an electromagnetic field sniffer cop who drives around and measures who is “cheating” on the rules.

That’s nuts.

All the people who live on the property are renters, though….so they have to abide by rules of the government.

The government owns the property where the dishes are located.

They sign an agreement when they move here, though, so it makes sense that they shouldn’t cheat on the rules.

The people who live here seem to have a sensitivity to electromagnet fields….and move here to avoid them.

Funny that you have to be someplace with big technology to be mandated away from the small and pervasive technology we know as “normal” now.

All these smart phones.

What did we do before all these smart phones?

About Peter Rorvig

I'm a non-practicing artist, a mailman, a husband, a father...not listed in order of importance. I believe that things can always get better....and that things are usually better than we think.

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