The Tyranny of E-mail

By John Freeman

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416576746
• ISBN13: 9781416576747
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Dated

Published in 2009, this is more useful as a look back on the history of communication since clay tablets. Phone texting has probably made some of this info a bit dated.