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Overview

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.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061687174
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 8/9/2011
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 123,430
  • Product dimensions: 7.78 (w) x 5.42 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Award-winning media critic William Powers has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and McSweeney's, among other publications. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, the author Martha Sherrill, and their son.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Room xi

Introduction 1

Part I What Larks?: The Conundrum of the Connected Life

1 Busy, Very Busy: In a Digital World, Where's the Depth? 9

2 Hello, Mother: The Magic of Screens 21

3 Gone Overboard: Falling Out with the Connected Life 37

4 Solutions That Aren't: The Trouble with Not Really Meaning It 67

Part II Beyond the Crowd: Teachings of the Seven Philosophers of Screens

5 Walking to Heaven: Plato Discovers Distance 83

6 The Spa of the Mind: Seneca on Inner Space 101

7 Little Mirrors: Gutenberg and the Business of Inwardness 121

8 Hamlet's BlackBerry: Shakespeare on the Beauty of Old Tools 137

9 Inventing Your Life: Ben Franklin on Positive Rituals 157

10 The Walden Zone: Thoreau on Making the Home a Refuge 175

11 A Cooler Self: McLuhan and the Thermostat of Happiness 193

Part III In Search of Depth: Ideas in Practice

12 Not So Busy: Practical Philosophies for Every Day 209

13 Disconnectopia: The Internet Sabbath 223

Afterword: Back to the Room 235

Acknowledgments 241

Notes 245

Further Reading 263

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  • Posted October 14, 2010

    Live your life: get disconnected from the screens

    This is the book I have been looking for. It gives you permission to live life deeply away from the constant hum of the internet, email, twittering, blogging etc.

    Well written, well-researched look at technology through the ages.

    Who'd have thought that Ben Franklin, Socrates, Shakespeare struggled with over-connectedness with the technologies of their day. Powers tells us how they "pulled the plug" and got in touch with their inner selves to reflect, think deeply and be serene.

    A practical book, Powers gives some concrete examples of how to manage the gadgets of the 21st century so that you run them, they don't run us.

    Bravo, Mr. Powers.

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    An amazing look at the strings that hold us down...

    This book is a powerful look at the lives we lead in an overconnected society. William Powers explains why we all feel like "pinballs bouncing around in a world of blinking lights and buzzers" and why though there is "lots of movement and noise," but "it doesn't add up to much." If you're over-twittered, facebook frenzied, mangled by myspace, locked-up and linkedin, you need this book.

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    Highly Recommended

    I don't normally read nonfiction, but this book really made me think about our culture and my own individual choices. It's refreshing to think that societies in the past have also had to adjust to new technologies and made it through unscathed! I'm passing this book around to everyone I know.

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    An amazing look at the strings that now hold us down...

    This book is a powerful look at the lives we lead in an overconnected society. William Powers explains why we all feel like "pinballs bouncing around in a world of blinking lights and buzzers" and why though there is "lots of movement and noise," "it doesn't add up to much." If you're over-twittered, facebook frenzied, mangled by myspace, locked-up and linkedin, you need this book.

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