Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technology by Eric Brende

Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technology by Eric Brende

Ditching their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water and everything else motorized or hooked to the grid, the Brende family conceives a real life experiment to see if in fact all our cell phones, wide screen TVs, and SUVs have made life easier and better-or whether life would be preferable without them. By turns, the query narrows down to a single question: What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this in mind, the Brendes begin an 18-month trial run that will dramatically change the way they live and prove entertaining and surprising to students. Better Off is a smart, often comedic, and always riveting book that also mingles scientific analysis with the human story, demonstrating how a world free of technological excess can shrink stress-and waistlines-and expand happiness, health, and leisure.

Deftly steering clear of dogma, never sounding like a sanctimonious scold, Eric Brende makes a persuasive case that most of us would enjoy life more by radically minimizing our reliance on modern technology. Better Off is a buoyant, thought-provoking, and very entertaining read.-Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air

Eric Brende holds degrees from Yale, Washburn University, and MIT, as well as a National Science Foundation Recognition of Excellence and a Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities. He now has an e-mail account at the local library, thanks to his editor's prodding, but he and his family continue to avoid contemporary technology. Eric and Mary Brende recently moved to an old-town area of St. Paul. Eric makes a living as a rickshaw driver and soap manufacturer in St. Louis.

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ISBN 13	9780060570057
ISBN 10	0060570059
Titel	Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technology
Autor	Eric Brende
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-08-02
Seitenanzahl	272
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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