Your happiness was hacked Why tech is winning the battle to control your brain, and how to fight back
Book - 2018
Technology: your master, or your friend? Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your e-mail or social-network activities? Digital technology is making us miserable, say bestselling authors and former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. We've become a tribe of tech addicts--and it's not entirely our fault. Taking advantage of vulnerabilities in human brain function, tech companies entice us to overdose on technology interaction. This damages our lives, work, families, and friendships. Swipe-driven dating apps train us to evaluate people like products, diminishing our relationships. At work, we e-mail on average 77 times a day, ruining our concentration. At home, light from our screens is contributing to ep...idemic sleep deprivation. But we can reclaim our lives without dismissing technology. The authors explain how to avoid getting hooked on tech and how to define and control the roles that tech is playing and could play in our lives. And they provide a guide to technological and personal tools for regaining control. This readable book turns personal observation into a handy action guide to adapting to our new reality of omnipresent technology.
- Subjects
- Published
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Oakland, CA :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xv, 237 pages ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781523095841
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. How Technology Removes Our Choices
- 2. The Origins of Technology Addiction
- 3. Online Technology and Love
- 4. Online Technology and Work
- 5. Online Technology and Play
- 6. Online Technology and Life
- 7. How Can We Make Technology Healthier for Humans?
- 8. A Vision for a More Humane Tech
- 9. A Personal Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Authors