William Powers Bücher

Überleben in der Informationsflut Ich bin online - also bin ich? Ein Leben ohne Internet, Emails, SMS, Facebook & Co ist gar nicht mehr vorstellbar. Doch wie findet man angesichts der allgegenwärtigen Informationsflut die richtige Balance, um ein selbstbestimmtes und erfülltes Leben zu führen? Auf der Suche nach mehr Tiefe in der digitalen Welt blickt William Powers zunächst in die Vergangenheit: Bei Denkern wie Platon oder Shakespeare findet er Antworten auf das moderne Dilemma der ständigen Erreichbarkeit. Ein überzeugendes Plädoyer dafür, auch einmal abzuschalten.

Drawing on some of history's most brilliant thinkers, from Plato to Shakespeare to Thoreau, this book shows that digital connectedness serves us best when it's balanced by its opposite, disconnectedness.

Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. In his book Twelve by Twelve, Powers lived in an off-grid tiny house in rural North Carolina. In New Slow City, he and his wife, Melissa, inhabited a Manhattan micro-apartment in search of slow in the fastest city in the world. Here, the couple, with baby in tow, search for balance, community, and happiness in a small town in Bolivia. They build an adobe house, plant a prolific orchard and organic garden, and weave their life into a community of permaculturists, bio-builders, artists, and creative businesspeople. Can this Transition Town succeed in the face of encroaching North American capitalism, and can Powers and the other settlers find the balance they're seeking? Dispatches from the Sweet Life is compelling, sobering, thought-provoking, and, no matter the outcome, inspiring.