Why do we feel the need to be online all the time?
IT WAS a week in New York that did it. Before the wheels of the plane hit the tarmac in JFK last April, I had made a conscious decision to switch off my smartphone and disengage from Twitter, Facebook, email and text for the duration of my holiday.
This meant no phone-soothing in bed at night, no arbitrary phone-flicking while waiting in line at a museum and no phone-checking at dinner.
