Your Happiness Was Hacked

Weve become a tribe of tech addicts and its not entirely our fault. Taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the human brain function tech companies entice us to overdose on technology interaction. This damages our lives work families and friendships. Swipe-driven apps train us to evaluate people like products diminishing our relationships. At work we email on an average of seventy-seven times a day ruining our concentration. At home light from our screens contributes 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 it plays and could play in our lives. This profound and timely book turns personal observation into a handy guide to adapting to our new reality of omnipresent technology. About the Author Alex Salkever is a technology leader and author. He has been a chief marketing officer aBusinessweek editor a visiting researcher at Duke University and a senior executive at leading technology companies. He pens columns regularly forFortune and consults for numerous technology companies.Vivek Wadhwa is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law Schools Labor and Worklife Program a professor at Carnegie Mellons College of Engineering and a globally syndicated columnist for theWashington Post.