William Powers
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William Powers

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From www.williampowers.com: William Powers was born in Arizona and grew up in Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in history and literature. He began his journalism career at The Washington Post where in the 1990s he covered business, politics, popular culture and other subjects. His widely read Post column, The Magazine Reader, launched his career as a leading thinker and writer on life in the age of information. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, McSweeney's, The Guardian and many other publications. He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Rowse Award for best American media commentary. In 2008 he began writing a book about how to live wisely and happily in a connected world. The result is Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age (HarperCollins, 2010), a crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who's grown dependent on digital devices is asking: Where's the rest of my life? Powers challenges the widely held assumption that the more we connect through technology, the better. It's time to strike a new balance, he argues, and discover why it's also important to disconnect. Part memoir, part intellectual journey, the book draws on the technological past and such thinkers as Shakespeare, Thoreau and McLuhan. He is currently working as a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. He is married to author Martha Sherrill and they live in Massachusetts with their son. For more information, visit his website: www.williampowers.com.
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