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

    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 epidemic 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.

    Editor's Note

    Take back control…

    Yeah, yeah, we all know we’re addicted to our phones, social media, and swiping right. And we know it’s not good for us. But what can we do about it, short of time traveling back to the truly terrifying days of dial up? This handy guide shows you how to take back control. Don’t worry! It won’t make you ditch the tech that you love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
    Release dateJun 26, 2018
    ISBN9781523095865
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    Vivek Wadhwa

    VIVEK WADHWA is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School and Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering at Silicon Valley. He is the co-author of Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain - and How to Fight Back; The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent; and Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology. He has held appointments at Duke University, Stanford Law School, Emory University, and Singularity University. ALEX SALKEVER is a writer, futurist, and technology leader. He has served as a senior executive at a number of Silicon Valley startups and as a senior leader at respected brands in technology, most recently at Mozilla, where he served as a vice president.

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