Maybe this is just me being an "old timer", but one of my favorite aspects of burning man was getting away from connectivity and technology. There was no cell signal on the playa (or anywhere after Gerlach) and I could only send a text back from Center camp mid-week to let my SO know i made it.
The harsh environs also made it so that I didn't want to take a smartphone out on the playa.
The last couple of times I went (and I haven't been in 2 years), I was shocked to see that there was full 4G/LTE connectivity on the playa and that hanging out at a camp bar or mutant vehicle, you're likely to see the same face buried in their phones experience that you'd see in the default world.
Maybe this is just me being an "old timer", but one of my favorite aspects of burning man was getting away from connectivity and technology. There was no cell signal on the playa (or anywhere after Gerlach) and I could only send a text back from Center camp mid-week to let my SO know i made it. The harsh environs also made it so that I didn't want to take a smartphone out on the playa.
The last couple of times I went (and I haven't been in 2 years), I was shocked to see that there was full 4G/LTE connectivity on the playa and that hanging out at a camp bar or mutant vehicle, you're likely to see the same face buried in their phones experience that you'd see in the default world.