Hamlet's BlackBerry

Hamlet's BlackBerry
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A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2010

نویسنده

William Powers

شابک

9780062002877
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Publisher's Weekly

May 3, 2010
Our discombobulated Internet Age could learn important new tricks from some very old thinkers, according to this incisive critique of online life and its discontents. Journalist Powers bemoans the reigning dogma of “digital maximalism” that requires us to divide our attention between ever more e-mails, text messages, cellphone calls, video streams, and blinking banners, resulting, he argues, in lowered productivity and a distracted life devoid of meaning and “depth.” In a nifty and refreshing turn, he looks to ideas of the past for remedies to this hyper-modern predicament: to Plato, who analyzed the transition from the ancient technology of talking to the cutting-edge gadgetry of written scrolls; to Shakespeare, who gave Hamlet the latest in Elizabethan information apps, an erasable notebook; to Thoreau, who carved out solitary spaces amid the press of telegraphs and railroads. The author sometimes lapses into mysticism—“In solitude we meet not just ourselves but all other selves”—and his solutions, like the weekend-long “Internet Sabbaths” he and his wife decreed for their family, are small-bore. But Powers deftly blends an appreciation of the advantages of information technology and a shrewd assessment of its pitfalls into a compelling call to disconnect.




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