Turning off technology is about mental wellbeing – not becoming a digital hermit

Technological advances have put the world at our fingertips, but is being connected all of the time really good for us?At a conference in Cannes eight years ago, I sat next to a producer who was working on an ambitious TV project about anthropology. We were both listening to a speech by a TV executive and I was in full conference flow, frenetically typing (badly) and flicking between emails. I must have been exhausting to sit next to, because at the end he turned to me with a mixture of weary as