Hamlet's BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
- ISBN-10
- 0061687170
- ISBN-13
- 9780061687174
- Series
- Hamlet's BlackBerry
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-08-09
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- William Powers
Description
Our computers and mobile devices do wonderful things for us. But they also impose a burden, making it harder for us to focus, do our best work, build strong relationships, and find the depth and fulfillment we crave. How to solve this problem? Hamlet’s BlackBerry argues that we just need a new way of thinking, an everyday philosophy for life with screens. William Powers sets out to solve what he calls the conundrum of connectedness. Reaching into the past—using his own life as laboratory and object lesson—he draws on some of history’s most brilliant thinkers, from Plato to Shakespeare to Thoreau, to demonstrate that digital connectedness serves us best when it’s balanced by its opposite, disconnectedness. Lively, original, and entertaining, Hamlet’s BlackBerry will challenge you to rethink your digital life.
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- 2010-06-29
- 288 pages
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- 2010-09-27
- 288 pages
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- 2010-06-29
- 288 pages
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- 2010
- 289 pages
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