This seems kind of draconian, but it surely works. Enforced unplugging.

via Fast Company

Replacing our hooks-and-ladders with drones: The robot firemen of the future. http://t.co/wXMdOww5x6 pic.twitter.com/sIqsOeTmrP

— Co.Exist (@FastCoExist) February 24, 2014

Record Your Own Cover Version of John Cages Silent Composition "4:33" with the 4:33 Smartphone App: http://t.co/D0g0CuZMX1

— WFMU (@WFMU) February 20, 2014

via @susancain and Yahoo

This seems to make sense on so many levels. I'd love to hear stories about the effects it's having; I'd like to think that as this becomes more widely known the Congressional use could become a model for the rest of us. Calls to mind Krista Tippet's Civil Conversations project and the National Day of Unplugging.

@polarben "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

— Katherine Konner (@soulboat) February 21, 2014

You wouldn't expect a polar explorer to hook on to a theologian to find advice that a stroke patient can take to heart. Reminds me of the tagline I saw on a box of supplies in rehab a while ago.