INTRODUCTION

Does It Have to Be This Way?

Go to a Little League game, and you’ll see parents watching their kids on the field. Or are they? Their eyes wander back and forth between the game and their smartphones.

That young couple across the restaurant out for a dinner date—one is checking e-mail, the other is wondering, “Are you having dinner with me or your work?”

That person on a quiet beach in the Caribbean, click-clacking away on a laptop—is this really a vacation?

We are all too familiar with the challenges of the “always-connected” age of the smartphone, iPad, Netbook, laptop—or the next big thing that will enable us to be on the golf course, on the beach, on the couch or even in bed, and still be working. We feel overwhelmed, overworked, ...

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