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<blockquote data-quote="GlenM" data-source="post: 2184"><p>Michael J. Ross and Dan Sisson write "In our increasingly mechanized world, we repeatedly hear promises that every new digital product, computerized service, or other form of technology, will make our lives easier — bestowing greater leisure, health, and happiness. Yet are any of those promises being fulfilled? Are we not instead becoming slaves to the very "conveniences" that we struggle to master? These weighty questions are addressed by Steve Talbott in his book Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines." Read below for the rest of Michael and Dan's review.<a href="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/25/147245&from=rss" target="_blank">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews?a=RRhdlE" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews?i=RRhdlE" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></img></a></p><p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/127839163" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/127839163/article.pl" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GlenM, post: 2184"] Michael J. Ross and Dan Sisson write "In our increasingly mechanized world, we repeatedly hear promises that every new digital product, computerized service, or other form of technology, will make our lives easier — bestowing greater leisure, health, and happiness. Yet are any of those promises being fulfilled? Are we not instead becoming slaves to the very "conveniences" that we struggle to master? These weighty questions are addressed by Steve Talbott in his book Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines." Read below for the rest of Michael and Dan's review.[URL="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/25/147245&from=rss"]Read more of this story[/URL] at Slashdot. [URL="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews?a=RRhdlE"][IMG]http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews?i=RRhdlE[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [IMG]http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/127839163[/IMG] [url=http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/127839163/article.pl]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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