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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's ... cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decades worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, [this book] offers an alternative history of the digital age, chronicling its roller-coaster crazes and crashes, its blind triumphs, and its unintended consequences"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction—an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a broken phone, and Millennial kids spend so much time in front...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater understanding, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution and how families can combat the disconnection we are experiencing from our extreme device dependence.
Have iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table? What do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones? Should you be your child's Facebook friend? As the focus of family...
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