William Powers, Hamlet’s Blackberry

Start: 08/05/2010 7:00 pm

"Always connected. Anytime. Anyplace. We know it’s a blessing, but we’re starting to noitce that it’s also a curse. In Hamlet’s Blackberry, William Powers helps us understand what being ‘connected’ disconnects us from. This is a thoughtful, elegant, and moving book"
Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less

"To those dithering over whether to close down Facebook accounts, resign from the Twitterati and resume a more contemplative and more properly connected life, this remarkable book presents the answers and the validation for which you have been hoping. William Powers, brave in intent and wise in argument, offers in these pages an oasis of serenity and sanity, a sanctuary from a world fast turning into a limitless digital Sahara."
Simon Winchester, author of The Man Who Loved China

William Powers, a former staff writer for the Washington Post, has written about media, technology, and other subjects for a wide variety of publications, including the Atlantic, the New York Times, and McSweeney’s. This book grew out of research he did as a fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. A two-time winner of the Arthur Rowse Award for media criticism, he lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Martha Sherill and their son.