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

by John Freeman

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Freeman traces written communication from clay tablets to modern email, arguing that the speed and volume of digital messaging has fundamentally changed how we think, listen, and relate to each other.

Published:: 2009
Pages:: 256

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John Freeman's The Tyranny of E-mail provides Newport with one of his most memorable quotes: with email "we become task-oriented, tetchy, terrible at listening as we try to keep up with the computer."

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