Dion Chang talks to Sue Grant-Marshall about avoiding, or recovering from, the pitfalls of our hi-tech, multitasking, always-on world I’VE seen the future in digital burnout survivor Dion Chang’s face. I’ve listened to his descriptions of what lies down the track for people addicted to cellphones, e-mail, social media and the internet. And it is chilling.Chang, founder of Flux Trends, a South African company that is increasingly focusing on analysing business trends, still has traces of exhaustion in his eyes when we meet a few days after he’s flown in from London, "where I regained my sanity"."I’ve been badly singed by digital burnout this year," he admits. "It’s an entirely new and not yet clearly understood condition."But already Germany is considering legislation to curb workplace e-mailing — or e-mail abuse, as some call it. China has hundreds of internet addiction centres and the UK has at least one Tech Creche where a family’s digital gadgets are locked away for a day as they...
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