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Your Happiness Was Hacked

Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain—and How to Fight Back

by Vivek Wadhwa
Alex Salkever
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"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, The Spectrum
For all its considerable benefits, many argue that technology has been instrumental in eroding security, privacy, and community. But Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever argue that the truth is far more insidious: technology is actively robbing us of our happiness by making us so reliant on it that it becomes an addiction. Tech companies have all the weapons—sophisticated tracking bots, GPS coordinates, and algorithms that determine the optimal ways to distract us to their products and apps—even secret coding that defeats government monitoring and supervision—but Vivek and Salkever now provide us with insights and techniques to fight back. They focus on four key areas: Love, Work, Self, and Society. In each case, they document how the promise of technology has mutated into addiction and despair, and they lay out strategies to take back control by understanding the addictive mechanisms at the root of technology overload.

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    June 26, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781663742759
      • File size: 160338 KB
      • Duration: 05:34:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Coauthor Alex Salkever narrates this timely audiobook in an uninflected manner. While he's far from a dramatic reader, his earnest style suits the seriousness of the issues he raises. He is convincing. The authors share their personal stories, each in a kind of mea culpa for what inspired this project: email addiction leading to failing health for Wadhwa and a near disaster--screen reading while driving--for Salkever. The authors then take on a litany of problems--screen addiction, decline in exercise, sleep deprivation, loneliness--that are related to the massive time-suck of social media. They demonstrate that parents' screen behavior contributes powerfully to teens' tech addiction. They give thoughtful suggestions for modifying use and recommend apps to help. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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