Digital Abstinence?
When Guan Tong saw this rule, his first reaction was that it was far too easy.
What was so hard about going a month without internet-enabled devices?
Read every day, take walks, chat with people, or tinker with whatever he felt like—he could coast through a month without any trouble.
But when he saw the note saying, "You who have been accompanied by the internet since birth," he suddenly realized something:
He thought this rule was easy because he was a transmigrator from Earth!
The planet he had lived on before transmigrating had highly developed networks too, but they were nowhere near the point of being "inseparable from humans since birth."
For example, the mobile internet boom represented by smartphones was still considered "young technology" back on Earth, with a history of only around twenty years.
But on Tianshui Star, the internet was far more advanced than it had been on Earth. In particular, embodied intelligence and wearable smart devices, which Earth was still exploring, had long since become commonplace in this world.
Children on Tianshui Star had smart devices with them from birth, with each person wearing an average of three to five smart wearable devices.
For instance, North Star had a domestic wearable bracelet brand called Baby Companion. Almost every child had one and wore it from birth. It could monitor a child's various vital indicators in real time, quickly reporting to their parents if they fell ill, became thirsty, or got hungry.
It was easy to imagine that if an infant wore smart devices from the moment they were born, calling them "companions from birth" was no exaggeration. As they grew older, they naturally would not resist smart devices. Instead, they would instinctively regard them as part of life.
As a transmigrator, Guan Tong was