There are praises that can only be written against the grain of the times, and this is one of them. At the turn of the 21st century, hyper-disconnection deserves to be praised as a means, or an instrument, not only of existential survival—physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual—but also of clandestine resistance, clandestine insofar as no one expects—or everyone desperately longs for—our continued existence in a world of full connectivity: wired, not wireless.