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William Powers

William Powers

Author, journalist, and technologist.

William Powers is an author, journalist, and technologist, and author of the New York Times’s 2010 bestseller Hamlet’s BlackBerry.

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William Powers is an author, journalist, and technologist, and author of the New York Times’s 2010 bestseller Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. He is also a visiting scholar at the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. William has served as a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab and as a staff writer for the Washington Post. A frequent speaker and award-winning journalist, he has held fellowships at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Japan Society.

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