Question Requested for Review of the Book Blackberry (Book Review Sample)

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Reviewing, “Hamlet’s Blackberry”
Emergence of computers connects people to the outside content and makes life easier. However, managing the connection between the computer age and the current lifestyle causes makes the technology a hindrance to the economy. Connection to the current issues makes people suffer from lack of focus and busyness. In the book, “Hamlet’s Blackberry” by William Powers, the author seeks for guidance from people who struggled with issues of similar magnitude. Media has created new ways of depriving and enriching the ambivalences. The author highlights seven great thinkers who reflects on this issue. William Powers asserts that Gutenberg, Ben Franklin, Plato, Seneca, and McLuhan share opinions on impact of new behavior on Franklin’s model.
A book that deals with media and digital age can become irrelevant after some time. Thus, the author can avoid this ambiguity when he or she updates the relevant information. The author can update the title of the book after a sometime. For instance, Blackberry is irrelevant in our society after emergence of Android and iPhone. The title of the book would suggest, “Hamlet’s Android or iPhone”. The issue in the book is irrelevant since its publication. It is related to conundrum of connectedness. The emergence of mobile phones and computers have made life easier. They connect people to the outer world when it links content and the people. Innovation also keeps human mind busy as it manages his or her reactions to arising issues. Human beings tend to forget what to do but instead focus on important things.
Power narrates his past as writer with “The Washington Post”, the author opines that his contribution to technology and media does not blame the tools that make us busy. Power understands that human beings keep themselves busy with given tools. The author proposes that human beings need a new way of looking at “a new digital philosophy” (Powers 4). Human beings ought to connect outward to deal with ways of responding to outward connection. Human beings require connection to answer to calls and connect with the outer world.The author also proposes that the major way of solving the issue is to strike a balance between two existing impulses. I duly support this assertion though it is not worth reading the whole 267 pages. The author makes the book interesting when he uses examples of the past to seek guidance from great thinkers to solve dilemmas in the modern technology era.
The permanent solution to the dilemmas about technology is to keep away from the crowd and give yourself time to reflect on relevant issue. According to Plato, connectedness means talking to the people in the city to make your schedule busy. The author also shows how distance of the author from the crowd helped refocus on invention of written language to offload information and speak freely. However, it is difficult to distance yourself when the crowd follows you on your mobile device. More so, Seneca proposes that one can avoid noises when he or she creates inner distance in the writing process. Seneca exemplifies how he dealt with keeping away from noise. He states that he documented letters to Lucilius, his friend. Seneca states that writing helps one form private experience on reflection. However, writing requires discipline of Stoic, “To force the mind to become self-absorbed and not let outside things distract it” (Powers 101).
Silent reading is another way of opening development and reflection on individual thinking. Powers acknowledges that Gutenberg brought this introspection out when he invented the printing press. It took a long time for people to go for an inner journey through writing and reading the alphabet. Media is becoming more social thus hindering the ability to privatize humanity. Devices used such as computers and phones stream notification on the gadgets of other users. The devices interrupt our privacy thus affecting our thoughts. We should not blame the devices we use as they act as a...