This guy swore off the internet for all of 2020. Then the pandemic hit

Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 5:10 a.m.

McGill University PhD student Aron Rosenberg in January began a personal project to swear off all internet usage for an entire year. Then the pandemic hit. He talks about his reasons for turning off the switch, and what he's learned — about our collective reliance on the internet, and about himself — in the months since.