Prisoners Set Free

Washington, D.C. – Instead of making life easier, technology has introduced complexity. Instead of giving us more time with family, technology has pulled family members away from each other and toward their devices.

Lisa J. Whaley, former IBM Vice President, has published her latest book to encourage us to step away from the keyboard, e-mail, cell phone, and other devices and instead position ourselves to give a loved one a hug or wave at our neighbor.

Prisoners of Technology…Time to get Unplugged (Published by Rooftop Publishing, ISBN 1600080065 $19.95 156 Pages) is a sometimes humorous, sometimes controversial, always revealing look at the hold technology has on our lives and what we need to do to regain control versus letting technology control us.

“Prisoners of Technology doesn’t condemn technology,” stresses Whaley. “Our technical devices are much too wonderful to receive condemnation. What my book does is open our eyes to ways we’ve developed unhealthy attachments to our machines and offers approaches to scaling down our dependency on them.”

“I spent 22 years at IBM where I was executive, and have first-hand experience with the burnout caused by work/life imbalance and overuse of technology,” Whaley said.

While it took 38 years for radio to attract 50 million listeners, 13 years for television to attract 50 million viewers, it took only 4 years for the Internet to attract 50 million surfers!

“Today, ‘on demand’ has changed business and our lives,” stresses Whaley. “We have come to expect everything on demand, from videos to electronic banking to bill paying to ourselves. We have become almost robotic with constant accessibility. We feel guilty if we unplug for a little while. Yet we must!”

After coming unplugged herself, Whaley has put her life in better order, traveled nationwide as a speaker, and coaches others on how to strike a work/life equation that works for them. Now in her latest book, Whaley invites us to come unplugged, connect with people, and control our lives.

Prisoners of Technology is available at major bookstores, on Amazon.com and RooftopPublishing.com.

Rooftop Publishing is a general interest publisher with a distinguished selection of regionally-focused non-fiction and fiction books, business and media books, and biographies and autobiographies. Rooftop Publishing was created in 2005, and is the trade publishing operation of Author Solutions, Inc.

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