Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox

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.

Author: John Freeman
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 01/11/2011
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.56w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781416576747
ISBN10: 1416576746
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Social Aspects