Are you an information addict?
bmj: Two things:1. I kinda thought I was, then I left for a one month road trip with limited connectivity.  When I did have connectivity, I checked email, local news, and HN, and that was it.  I had no urge to keep up with anything else.  It was kinda nice.2. In his _Technological Society_, Jacques Ellul writes the following: "We are constrained to be 'engaged,' as the existentialists say, with technique."  Though this was written over 40 years ago, it very much describes our current information age.