Internet Withdrawl and Information Ubiquity
The fascinating thing is that the existence of the internet and the information it provides has changed what it means to be "plugged in." Always on, everywhere, all the time behvaior has created an environment where the minimum threshold of connectivity has been raised to an obscene level! When you're used to having all that power at your fingertips, I guess it's very hard to go without.
I've started to purposefully not use my computer except at work or when necessary for a specific goal. It's difficult, though... it's gotten to the point where I don't even want to pick up a dictionary. Not necessarily because it takes a ton of time to find the word I want but mostly because I can check a few dictionaries (including the OED) and copy and paste the definition if I need to.
SIMS and our type is definitely an outlying case of information consumption. But when you can have google et al. on your cell phone anywhere in the world... the world becomes a different place. Although, I think the jury is still out on whether or not the average user can really make use of the resources available to them!