Hi Oz, yes I suppose eastern philosophy and the dalai lama are a little hyped up in the West. Not that it is all bad, I am sure the Lama is an excellent person and I find Indian philosophy very interesting but the New Age fashion flooded us with a lot of self help books and such things and most of them I am afraid are just rubbish and no help at all.
Hi Oz,What was the Dalai Lama book like? Worth reading?
Hi, in fact when I read a review of GUD in The Economist, I first bought an electronic copy of it, but I also bought a pb copy of Growing Up Digital, written in the 90ies and began reading it, because I wanted to refresh my mind as to what happened in the last decade when my nephews, b 1994 & 1996 respectively, were growing up. So first I will finish that one, and then move on to GUD. It is a good book about that generation of kids, they a rarely seen without their cellular phone and their ipod, they don't read much, but play video games as soon as they are given half a chance, and now the whole class in their school has formed a Facebook network. I follow them with a mixture of envy and fascination and think of Growing Up Digital as a guidebook, a kind of Modern Children for (grown up) Dummies :)
Hi, I put down Grown Up Digital to read Growing Up Digital but I am distracted by The Black Swan and The Second World War. GUD makes me think of my nephews, they are much at ease with ipods and online content, and above all video games. I will say more when I have read it.
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