And your reason for this is...? The internet is full to overflowing with accessible information; one can research, study, network, send and receive pictures, read books and essays, - more facets of information than one will ever use, but it is there. In the days when I used to do research in libraries it used to take me literal weeks to establish a fact that now may take me only hours.

Not to mention email. And the Mudcat.

As for television, since I do not currently have tv I am aware that it is easily possible to do without it; however, there are some things I miss: documentaries, political debates, memorials and other special events.

I can understand going cold turkey from the Internet and television for a temporary reason- the children are all home, it is a social season, we have all joined a book club or a fitness center, whatever. But to me doing without them is a reversion to an earlier time when access to knowledge was not only limited but possibly not as valued.