Works on Paper
Posted on 15 April 2010
WILLIAM POWERS is an award-winning journalist (Washington Post, National Journal) and media critic who has been thinking about the importance of staying connected to the peculiar human qualities of paper in the age of digital disembodiment. Poetry–by poets such as Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Mary Oliver–has helped him think about how this question might be inseparable from the problems of disconnection people have always encountered.
Since we spoke in May 2009, Powers has completed the book project inspired by this line of thought: due in June 2010, it’s called Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. Listen to the podcast here:
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