Description
The book is about how to have a good life without being connected to technology. Powers argues that we need to disconnect and find ways to connect on a deeper level. He uses examples from history and literature to make his case.
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 whos grown dependent on digital devices is asking: Wheres the rest of my life?
Hamlets BlackBerry challenges the widely held assumption that the more we connect through technology, the better. Its 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 standpointfrom
Here Comes Everybody to
Wikinomicsbut Powers examines it on a deep interpersonal, psychological, and emotional level. Readers of Malcolm Gladwells
The Tipping Point and
Outliers will relish
Hamlets BlackBerry.
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