ReSTART Internet Addiction Center Opens in Seattle

Individuals who enter the program will go cold-turkey on technology as a way of helping them overcome their compulsive need to blog and game, in addition to receiving psychotherapy and counseling. It's easy to raise an eyebrow at the notion of physical or psychological addiction to leisure-time activities, but there's evidence that these kinds of addictions can destroy relationships, end careers and even result in death.

It's actually a familiar problem in countries like China and South Korea where web addiction is treated as a very serious disease, and widely recognized by medical experts to be incredibly harmful. But internet-addiction has yet to make an appearance in the DSM, and treatment for electronic addiction is almost never covered by insurance here in the United States.

Neil Postman's writing is definitely beginning to look downright prophetic.