Hamlet's BlackBerry building a good life in the digital age
"A soulful polemic that challenges the sacred dogma of the digital age--that the more we connect with others, the happier we are--arguing that as our electronic connectedness grows, we are pulled away from the relationships and experiences that give life texture, depth, and meaning".-- Pro...
| Main Author: | Powers, William, 1961- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st Harper Perennial ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : the room
- pt. 1. What larks? : the conundrum of the connected life
- Busy, very busy : in a digital world, where's the depth?
- Hello, Mother : the magic of screens
- Gone overboard : falling out with the connected life
- Solutions that aren't : the trouble with not really meaning it
- pt. 2. Beyond the crowd : teachings of the seven philosophers of screens
- Walking to heaven : Plato discovers distance
- The spa of the mind : Seneca on inner space
- Little mirrors : Gutenberg and the business of inwardness
- Hamlet's BlackBerry : Shakespeare on the beauty of old tools
- Inventing your life : Ben Franklin on positive rituals
- The Walden zone : Thoreau on making the home a refuge
- A cooler self : McLuhan and the thermostat of happiness
- pt. 3. In search of depth : ideas in practice
- Not so busy : practical philosophies for every day
- Disconnectopia : the Internet sabbath
- Afterword : back to the room.