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August 1, 2010

Author connects the digital age with the past in his new book, ‘Hamlet’s BlackBerry’

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by Bella English, Boston Globe

The more I connect digitally, the more I’m drawn to hard copy, so I decided to look at the history of paper and all related technologies. In reading Shakespeare, I stumbled on this moment where Hamlet pulls this thing out of his pocket that he called his tables. It was this fascinating example of a new technology where you wrote on pages (made of specially coated paper) with a stylus and you erased it at night. It was very much a 400-year-old version of what we’re doing today. It came to me that this thing was like his BlackBerry.

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/07/17/william_powers_connects_the_digital_age_with_the_past/

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