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Better Off : Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende (2004, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060570040

ISBN-139780060570040

eBay Product ID (ePID)30449639

Product Key Features

Book TitleBetter Off : Flipping the Switch on Technology

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLife Sciences / Ecology, Social Aspects, General, Sociology / Rural, Science & Technology

Publication Year2004

IllustratorYes

GenreTechnology & Engineering, Social Science, Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorEric Brende

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight17.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-067567

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal303.48/3

SynopsisWhat happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated? Eric Brende 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 ditch their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "hooked to the grid" and begin an eighteen-month trial run -- one that dramatically changes the way they live, and proves entertaining and surprising to readers. 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. Our notion that technophobes are backward gets turned on its head as the Brendes realize that the crucial technological decisions of their adopted Minimite community are made more soberly and deliberately than in the surrounding culture, and the result is greater -- not lesser -- mastery over the conditions of human existence.

LC Classification NumberHM846.B74 2004