Hamlet's Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

Hamlet's Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

By William Powers

A brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the Internet age. Bob Woodward Incisive. . . Refreshing. . . Compelling. Publishers Weekly A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who s grown dependent on digital devices is asking: Where s the rest of my life. Hamlet s BlackBerry challenges the widely held assumption that the more we connect through technology, the better.

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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publish Date: 08/09/2011
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780061687174
ISBN-10: 0061687170
Language: English

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"A brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the Internet age." --Bob Woodward

"Incisive ... Refreshing ... Compelling." --Publishers Weekly

A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who's grown dependent on digital devices is asking: Where's the rest of my life? Hamlet's BlackBerry challenges the widely held assumption that the more we connect through technology, the better. It's time to strike a new balance, William Powers argues, and discover why it's also important to disconnect. Part memoir, part intellectual journey, the book draws on the technological past and great thinkers such as Shakespeare and Thoreau. "Connectedness" has been considered from an organizational and economic standpoint--from Here Comes Everybody to Wikinomics--but Powers examines it on a deep interpersonal, psychological, and emotional level. Readers of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Outliers will relish Hamlet's BlackBerry.

About the Author

Award-winning media critic William Powers has written for the Atlantic , the New York Times , the Washington Post , and McSweeney's , among other publications.

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