Hamlet’s BlackBerry, the book
New York Times bestseller – now in paperback!
What’s the Digital Age really about? How can we make the most of it?
Readers everywhere are finding answers in one of the year’s most talked-about books. Lively, original, and entertaining, Hamlet’s BlackBerry offers a bold new approach to digital life, one that individuals, families, businesses and other organizations can use to make better, smarter use of today’s technologies.
The Katie Couric interview | The PBS NewsHour piece
The Wall Street Journal review | The New York Times review
The Good Morning America piece | The Diane Rehm Show interview
The NPR Morning Edition piece | The New Yorker piece
Latest News:
• Highlights of the Australia tour
• NYT: William Powers on Rethinking Email in the Workplace
• What is Hamlet’s BlackBerry, anyway? Powers at Aspen Ideas Festival
• WIRED: “What RIM Could Learn From Hamlet’s BlackBerry”
• Getting the Most out of Digital Life: A Conversation with William Powers
• “7 Must-Read Books on the Future of the Internet”
• USA Today: Powers on technology and productivity
• On CNBC, Powers says businesses need to get smarter about digital
• Family life in a connected world: It’s all about Balance
• Powers speaks at Google, Facebook, and South by Southwest
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Praise for Hamlet’s BlackBerry:
“Incisive. . . Refreshing. . . Compelling.”
Publishers Weekly
“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.”
Bob Woodward
Hamlet’s BlackBerry “changed my life . . . and when was the last time you said that about a book?”
Laura Lippman, New York Times-bestselling novelist, Salon
“[E]ven a jaded reader is likely to be won over by Hamlet’s BlackBerry.”
David Harsanyi, The Wall Street Journal
“Powers . . . moves beyond the debate over whether technology makes us smarter or dumber and focuses on what really matters: how do we learn to cope with it.”
Niraj Chokshi, The Atlantic
“William Powers, brave in intent and wise in argument, offers in these pages an oasis of serenity and sanity.”
Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman and Atlantic