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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Never Alone: Getting 'Off the Grid' Isn't Easy to Do


Gone by Evan Ratliff is about people who, for various reasons, tried to go off the grid, to disappear without a trace. Ratliff's piece suggests that, in a world where we are ever more interconnected, where your whereabouts can be traced by everything from the GPS in your cellphone to the magnetic stripe on your grocery card, to the camera mounted over the ATM, a world where you can be ratted out by your e-mail account, your favorite e-merchant, your social networking site, your subway card or the sticker on your car that lets you zip through the toll plaza, it has become nearly impossible to simply vanish.

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1 comment:

  1. lf only l could get advice from someone like whats his name?, that dude who vanished off the face of the worlds radar and sonar grids, lived in a palace of a cave it was ehoed in my amplified faculties once.
    Quicker than the eye can catch he is, left us blind as bats and stone deaf too....all
    due to the incessant volume of his 9/11 orchestrational arrangement..now lm a senseless tracked victim too...because of whats his name Ali Barack Obama is it?,
    lm confused again see!
    God bless and long live AmeriKa.

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