Hamlet's Blackberry Chapter 1 Summary

William Powers in his book “Hamlet's Blackberry” in Chapter 9 Inventing Your Life, he talks about how to improve digital life, that was no e-mail Fridays. Powers states, “When numerous studies and media reports cited it as a possible answer to the problem of distracted, insufficient workers” (157). Powers is talking about how people were getting distracted and off course by getting on there email, they had to do something to help. Companies and other businesses knew something had to be done, with the businesses losing hundred of billions of dollars. The plan was so simple. Powers states, “One day a week, everyone in an organization would disconnect from the inbox. This would lighten the mental burden, restore focus, and encourage face-to-face interaction” (157). Powers is talking about the positive effects of no email friday’s and what someone has to do to do no email Friday. But it has yet to happen. The employees have yet to take in this new rule that has been enforced. The gap of time from the no email fridays is to …show more content…
He talks about the negative sides of always being connected. Even uses his self for examples of how deep connected he was with digital life. I also like how he refers back to a great historian Benjamin Franklin and uses his thirteen desirable virtues and behavioral guidelines. Franklin also had impulses just like we do with technology, but his was a little different from our impulses. So for Franklin he had to get a plan down to help him manage his time and help with his attitude with the world. But the digital life has also affected our life in good ways to. Staying connected with relatives hours away by logging on Facebook and seeing pictures of them sledding. My five year old cousin knows how to call people, and after my football games he would call me and say congratulations, even if we lost. Digital life has some bad effects, but it also has some good