Majority of Americans Would Like to Return to Time Before Cell Phones, Internet, According to New Poll

Even younger respondents who have never lived in such a world voted in favor of giving it a whirl

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Seventy-seven percent of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was “plugged in,” meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell phone usage. As told by a new Harris Poll (via Fast Company), 63% of younger folks (18-34 years old) were also keen on returning to a pre-plugged-in world, despite that being a world they largely never had a chance to occupy.

In total, 67% of respondents said they’d prefer things as they used to be versus as they are now. On the flip side, 90% saw the importance in being open-minded when it came to new tech.

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