Better Off.Better Off Eric Brende HarperCollins Publishers 10 East 53rd St., NY, NY 10022-5299 0060570040 $24.95 1-800-242-7737 www.harpercollins.com In different hands Better Off : Flipping the Switch on Technology could have all too easily become a book packed with dogma, rhetoric and passionate illogic il·log·ic n. A lack of logic. Noun 1. illogic - invalid or incorrect reasoning illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence . But not so under the deft deft adj. deft·er, deft·est Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous. [Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft. and rational hand of Eric Brende, a graduate of MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology who chose to move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated. Brende decided to see if technology has really made life easier, and if people would be better without it. In Better Off, contemporary science blends with autobiography in an engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. analysis of the author's personal experiment. |
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