Off the Grid
Off the Grid
Living Blind Without the Internet
About the Book
In 2013, Robert Kingett went offline for a month as part of a challenge. The social experiment was supposed to chronicle life as a Blind man living without internet for a whole month. This book is a compilation of journal entries from that month offline. Readers will see how the world became hostile to an offline Disabled youth, including banking bungles, telephone mishaps, and inability to game due to games requiring online access. The book also highlights how conversations flow offline and the valuable lessons one writer learned while offline.
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Table of Contents
- Author’s Note
- Prologue
- The Disconnect
- Day One without Internet
- Trusting Information
- Combating the Itch
- Banking Bungles
- Meetings and Flicks
- The Computer Store Mystery
- Meeting an Angel on a Bus
- Interrogation without Facebook
- A Battle with the FM Radio
- The Landline Challenge
- NFB-NEWSLINE
- Poisonous Dialog: Internet Comments
- Desk Debauchery
- Engaging with Employment
- Destiny Denied
- Magical Information
- Applying for an Internship in the Shower
- Tactile Traveling
- Snail Mail
- My Final Night Offline
- Learning the Internet Again
- Epilogue
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