He dismissed the companies' claims that they do not disconnect customers by pointing out that those who fall into debt are moved on to prepayment meters which in effect force them to "self-disconnect".
If a wind turbine becomes unstable, it can be self-disconnected from the grid [16].
This increased the risk that an older person would self-disconnect or only heat one room due to fear of fuel debt.
After the initial withdrawal, we were promised special connections with each other, a slow release from our wired selves; a disconnect to reconnect.
It's this self-conscious disconnect from reality that provides viewers with a "safe" place to root for (and laugh with) killers, drug dealers, and sword-wielding assassins.
We are deepening the ecological divide (disconnecting self from nature), the social divide (disconnecting self from "the other"), and the spiritual divide (disconnecting self from self).
To large-scale global or regional grids or to self-sufficient disconnected prosumers?
Technology has made it possible to be in a self-contained, disconnected bubble 24 hours a day, even while walking down the street.
Because many people don't have the self-discipline to disconnect on their own, employers are taking steps to eliminate some of technology's temptations.
The two selves are not bound by a sufficiently strong common prudential interest, and so the person's earlier interests, no matter how important, do not transfer as particularly important interests of her current psychologically disconnected self.
While I understand the reasoning behind the shift away from informational intake, I remain bothered by the accepted disconnect between self and knowledge, as if it really doesn't matter what we know so long as we can look it up.
