Mindful tech: how to bring balance to our digital lives

From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overload, stress, and distraction. David M. Levy, who has...

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Main Author: Levy, David M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2016]
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Summary:From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overload, stress, and distraction. David M. Levy, who has lived his life between the "fast world" of high tech and the "slow world" of contemplation, offers a welcome guide to being more relaxed, attentive, and emotionally balanced while online. In a series of exercises carefully designed to help readers observe and reflect on their own use, Levy has readers observe themselves while emailing and while multitasking, and also to experiment with unplugging for a specified period
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xix, 230 Seiten 22 cm
ISBN:9780300208313
9780300227017
0300208316

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