artifact 2: Hamlet's Blackberry

Restless energy of the hunted mind
Listening to William Powers talk about his book made me very interested in his book, Hamlet's Blackberry.  I found what he talked about to be very interesting and the way he used philosophers from other times dealing with their own new technologies to explain his point.  He did a great job talking about this book and he talked about several topics in his book, especially how we've become dependent on the internet and that some things that used to be routine for us, now are almost completely unfamiliar.

My favorite section of his talking was when he talked about his family and how they all tried to ignore technology for awhile.  The part where they were talking about finding movie times in the newspaper made me laugh because many times, me and my friends have sat there and just looked up movie times on our phones.  Technology has progressed so far and life has gotten easier.  I can also connect with what he says about family time and the internet and such getting in the way.  Everyone in my computer has a computer of some sort and after dinner we all often go our own way and do our own thing, whether it be my parents sitting down on the couch with their laptops, or it be my brother and I going out to hang out with friends.  We rarely ever just sit down and talk.

I liked the quote the "Restless energy of the Hunted Mind".  This quote just struck me because often I just sit on the internet and hop around restlessly.  Without realizing it, I often spend hours on the internet just looking at various random websites and hopping around from one place to another or just talking to someone on Facebook.  One thing that I thought of was that if his book is available on a Kindle, wouldn't it be ironic that part of his book is about paper always being there?