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New World Library
(2018-09-04)
304 pages
ISBN: 978-1608685646

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Hamlet’s Blackberry

July 24, 2010 by William Powers 7 Comments

Have you ever monitored your Twitter feed while you were in the middle of Facebooking— only to be distracted by the ping of an incoming email?  In this digital age, do you ever feel too connected?

I’m in the middle of a new book called Hamlet’s Blackberry, which seeks to teach us how to connect with wisdom.  I came across it partly because the author and I share the same name. The book looks to history for precedents into how we can reduce some of our information age anxiety.

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