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The art of bitfulness : keeping calm in the digital world / Nandan Nilekani, Tanuj Bhojwani.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Gurugram, Haryana, India : Penguin/Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022Description: 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9780670094790
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4833 NIL
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available as an e-book
Contents:
Part One: The Problem: 1. A Toxic Relationship - 2. The Problem with Us - 3. The Problem with IT - Part Two: The Individual: 4. How to be Bitful - 5. How to Think Clearly - 6. What to Think About - 7. A Poverty of Attention - 8. Create Mode - 9. Communicate Mode - 10. Curate Mode - 11. How to be Left Alone - 12. How to be Together - Part Three: The Collective: 13. Slippery Slopes of Scale - 14. Cryptomania - 15. India’s Stacks - 16. Architecting the Future - Appendix - Acknowledgements
Summary: The art of bitfulness helps create healthy boundaries between you and the floodgates of the internet. it offers new strategies to reclaim your time, privacy and attention. This book is all about how to live with tech, not how to live without it. The goal is not to spend less time on your devices; it is to spend your time on your devices better. This book also talks about how we got here in the first place. Why does our technology limit us, rather than liberate us? The art of bitfulness offers a new way of building tech for all, rather than a winner-takes-all system.
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Part One: The Problem:
1. A Toxic Relationship -
2. The Problem with Us -
3. The Problem with IT -
Part Two: The Individual:
4. How to be Bitful -
5. How to Think Clearly -
6. What to Think About -
7. A Poverty of Attention -
8. Create Mode -
9. Communicate Mode -
10. Curate Mode -
11. How to be Left Alone -
12. How to be Together -
Part Three: The Collective:
13. Slippery Slopes of Scale -
14. Cryptomania -
15. India’s Stacks -
16. Architecting the Future -
Appendix -
Acknowledgements

The art of bitfulness helps create healthy boundaries between you and the floodgates of the internet. it offers new strategies to reclaim your time, privacy and attention. This book is all about how to live with tech, not how to live without it. The goal is not to spend less time on your devices; it is to spend your time on your devices better. This book also talks about how we got here in the first place. Why does our technology limit us, rather than liberate us? The art of bitfulness offers a new way of building tech for all, rather than a winner-takes-all system.

Also available as an e-book