Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox

di John Freeman (Autore)

Simon & Schuster, 2011

There's no question that e-mail is an incredible phenomenon that represents a kind of cultural and technological advancement. The first e-mail was sent less than forty years ago; by 2011, there will be 3.2 billion e-mail users. The average corporate worker now receives upwards of two hundred e-mails per day. The flood of messages is ceaseless and follows us everywhere. In The Tyranny of E-mail, John Freeman takes an entertaining look at the unrelenting nature of correspondence through the ages. Put down your smart phone and consider the consequences. As the toll of e-mail mounts, reducing our time for leisure and contemplation and separating us in an unending and lonely battle with the overfull inbox, John Freeman--one of America's preeminent literary critics--enters a plea for communication that is more selective and nuanced and, above all, more sociable.

• Autore: John Freeman
• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 215 x 141 mm
• Peso: 222 gr.
• EAN: 9781416576747

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