03527cam a2200337 4500 1139567262 TxAuBib 20240204120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062945518 0062945513 B087CKW756 Amazon d933a7ae-24d9-47b0-a9d2-3d2d7a3e15e7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5417062 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kurczy, Stephen. The Quiet Zone [Libby eBook] : Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence. HarperCollins, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5060kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><strong>In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet.</strong></p> <p><strong>"Captures the complex beauty of a disconnected way of life." —The Nation</strong></p> <p><strong>With a new afterword to the paperback edition</strong></p> <p>Deep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly quiet town in America. Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned: It's home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the universe using the latest technology, while schoolchildren go without WiFi or iPads. With a ban on all devices emanating radio frequencies that might interfere with the observatory's telescopes, Quiet Zone residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity. But a community that on the surface seems idyllic is a place of contradictions, where the provincial meets the seemingly supernatural and quiet can serve as a cover for something darker.</p> <p>Stephen Kurczy embedded in Green Bank, making the residents of this small Appalachian village his neighbors. He shopped at the town's general store, attended church services, went target shooting with a seven-year-old, square-danced with the locals, sampled the local moonshine. In The Quiet Zone, he introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters. There is a tech buster patrolling the area for illegal radio waves; "electrosensitives" who claim that WiFi is deadly; a sheriff's department with a string of unsolved murder cases dating back decades; a camp of neo-Nazis plotting their resurgence from a nearby mountain hollow. Amongst them all are the ordinary citizens seeking a simpler way of living. Kurczy asks: Is a less connected life desirable? Is it even possible?</p> <p>The Quiet Zone is a remarkable work of investigative journalism—at once a stirring ode to place, a tautly wound tale of mystery, and a clarion call to reexamine the role technology plays in our lives.</p>. Technology. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-02-03 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d933a7ae-24d9-47b0-a9d2-3d2d7a3e15e7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d933a7ae-24d9-47b0-a9d2-3d2d7a3e15e7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d933a7ae-24d9-47b0-a9d2-3d2d7a3e15e7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS