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Annotation Your Happiness Was HackedWhy Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back Do you feel in control of your life or enslaved by your devices? Have you risked your life texting and driving? Do you sympathize with a test group of students who endured painful shocks rather than be separated from their phones? Digital technology is wonderful, but it's making us miserable, say former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. There's a reason Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Guardian he won't let his nephew on social networks. We've become a nation of tech addicts--although it's not entirely our fault, and it is possible to enjoy the benefits of technology while taking our happiness back from the bots. Wadhwa and Salkever describe the applied neuroscience techniques developers are using to make their products so insidiously habit-forming and, drawing on the latest research, detail the negative impact of technology in four key areas: love, work, play, and life. There are dozens of vivid examples. Online dating apps like Tinder encourage users to evaluate people like products, leading to superficial, unsatisfying relationships. Workers check their email

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Author

Vivek Wadhwa, Alex Salkever, Roger McNamee

Publisher

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781523095889

Category

business

Subjects

Engineering, Business, Technology

Rating

4.3 / 5 (76 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14