{"product_id":"9780061687174","title":"Hamlet's BlackBerry : Building a Good Life in the Digital Age","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHamlet's BlackBerry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): William Powers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the Internet age.” —Bob Woodward \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Incisive ... Refreshing ... Compelling.” —\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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? \u003cem\u003eHamlet’s BlackBerry\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eHere Comes Everybody\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eWikinomics\u003c\/em\u003e—but Powers examines it on a deep interpersonal, psychological, and emotional level. Readers of Malcolm Gladwell’s \u003cem\u003eThe Tipping Point\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOutliers\u003c\/em\u003e will relish \u003cem\u003eHamlet’s BlackBerry\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“[An] elegant meditation on our obsessive connectivity and its effect on our brains and our very way of life.”\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e“In this delightfully accessible book, Powers asks the questions we all \u003ci\u003eneed\u003c\/i\u003e to ask in this digitally driven time. And teaches us to answer them for ourselves.”\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061687174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41045459730638,"sku":"9780061687174","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061687174_ad75b90d-7785-4ab1-8eda-d2ae5f67a886.jpg?v=1652121850","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061687174","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}