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Binding
Hardcover
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Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
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ISBN
9780061687167
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Hamlet's Blackberry : a Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
Item Height
1in
Author
William Powers
Item Length
8.2in
Publisher
HarperCollins
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061687162
ISBN-13
9780061687167
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78834215

Product Key Features

Author
William Powers
Publication Name
Hamlet's Blackberry : a Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hm851.P688 2010
Reviews
In this delightfully accessible book, Powers asks the questions we all need to ask in this digitally driven time. And teaches us to answer them for ourselves., Always connected. Anytime. Anyplace. We know it's a blessing, but we're starting to notice that it's also a curse. In Hamlet's Blackberry, William Powers helps us understand what being 'connected' disconnects us from, and offers wise advice about what we can do about it…. A thoughtful, elegant, and moving book., [Hamlet s BlackBerry is] more cheerful and ultimately more persuasive than [Nicholas Carr s] The Shallows. . . . [Powers] makes a stronger case that it s still up to us to decide how best to live in, and sometimes apart from, this medium we have created., Powers mounts a passionate but reasoned argument for 'a happy balance'. . . . [He] is a lively, personable writer who seeks applicable lessons from great thinkers of the past. . . . Lucid, engaging prose and [a] thoughtful take on the joys of disconnectivity., Benjamin Franklin would love this book. He knew the power of being connected, but also how this must be balanced by moments of reflection. William Powers offers a practical guide to Socrates path to the good life in which our outward and inward selves are at one., Powers mounts a passionate but reasoned argument for a happy balance . . . . [He] is a lively, personable writer who seeks applicable lessons from great thinkers of the past. . . . Lucid, engaging prose and [a] thoughtful take on the joys of disconnectivity., A brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the Internet age why we have this screen addiction, its many perils, and some surprising remedies that can make your life better., “In this delightfully accessible book, Powers asks the questions we all need to ask in this digitally driven time. And teaches us to answer them for ourselves.�, A brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the Internet age--why we have this screen addiction, its many perils, and some surprising remedies that can make your life better., [An] elegant meditation on our obsessive connectivity and its effect on our brains and our very way of life., Always connected. Anytime. Anyplace. We know it s a blessing, but we re starting to notice that it s also a curse. In Hamlet s Blackberry, William Powers helps us understand what being connected disconnects us from, and offers wise advice about what we can do about it . A thoughtful, elegant, and moving book., Benjamin Franklin would love this book. He knew the power of being connected, but also how this must be balanced by moments of reflection. William Powers offers a practical guide to Socrates' path to the good life in which our outward and inward selves are at one.
Copyright Date
2010
Topic
Social Aspects, Social Aspects / General, General
Lccn
2010-015705
Dewey Decimal
303.48/33
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Psychology, Social Science, Philosophy

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