When Tech Is More Than Life, What’s Left?

After years of virtual reality games, HD-TV and smart phone machinations, Evan Brock, 15, suffered from migraines, dizziness and nausea. His father Leonard was concerned — so concerned he launched a full-fontal assault on the medical community. Following months of tedious tests, a specialist in cognitive psychology, Kathryn May-Morris, said she had ID’d the problem: Cyber-Syndrome (aka DMS "digital motion sickness"). The solution: Total withdrawal from technology for a year or more. When Leonard Brock told his son the news, Evan ran to the roof of their penthouse apartment, dangled his feet over the edge and wondered whether life without technology was life at all.