Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Ahem! Are You Talking to Me? (Or Texting?) - NYTimes.com

“You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me?”

William Powers, the author of “Hamlet’s BlackBerry,” a book about getting control of your digital life, appeared on a panel at South by Southwest and wrote that he came away thinking he had witnessed “a gigantic competition to see who can be more absent from the people and conversations happening right around them. Everyone in Austin was gazing into their little devices — a bit desperately, too, as if their lives depended on not missing the next tweet.”

Ahem! Are You Talking to Me? (Or Texting?) - NYTimes.com

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