Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology - Hardcover

Brende, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060570040 ISBN 13: 9780060570040

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2004

Synopsis

An MIT graduate working through an Institute program to study the effects of technology on society describes his year-long residence in a Mennonite-type community and recounts how his wife and he experienced reduced stress levels, weight loss, and overall life satisfaction throughout the course of their stay.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Brende has degrees from Yale, Washburn University, and MIT, and has received a Citation of Excellence from the National Science Foundation and a graduate fellowship from the Mellon Foundation in the Humanities. At the insistence of his editor, he now has an e-mail account at the local library but continues to minimize modern technology for himself and his family. Eric and Mary Brende have recently relocated to an old-town section in St. Louis, where Eric makes his living as a rickshaw driver and a soap maker.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060570040
• ISBN 13: 9780060570040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 233