Walden Persists Posted byGarrick van Buren October 4, 2011 …for all my talk about the liberating power of technology, I was beginning to see how imprisoned I was by it. – Sam Graham Felsen Thoreau hadn’t run away from life. He’d run toward it. Why can’t we leave our lives of quiet, digital desperation and do the same? – Susan Maushart, The Winter of our Disconnect