Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to

Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back

"Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives--the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children from it."
--Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Author,Â The Spectrum

Technology: your master, or your friend?Â Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your e-mail or social-network activities?Â 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.
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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 epidemic sleep deprivation.
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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.
Country USA
Brand Berrett-Koehler
Manufacturer Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781523095841
Color Teal/Turquoise green
ReleaseDate 2018-06-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781523095841

Country	USA
Brand	Berrett-Koehler
Manufacturer	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781523095841
Color	Teal/Turquoise green
ReleaseDate	2018-06-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781523095841

Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back

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