Also by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever

Your Happiness Was Hacked

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

Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your email 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. 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. This readable book turns personal observation into a handy action guide to adapting to our new reality of omnipresent technology.

Hardcover, 256 pages, ISBN 978-1-5230-9584-1

PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-5230-9585-8

ePub ebook ISBN 978-1-5230-9586-5

Digital audio, ISBN 978-1-5230-9588-9

Also by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever

The Driver in the Driverless Car

How Your Technology Choices Create the Future, Second Edition

In this edition of a bestselling classic, scholar and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa examines dozens of new technologies and raises critical questions about what they may mean for us. The Driver in the Driverless Car, second edition, discusses the accelerating changes in genomics and the use of CRISPR, a DNA modification technology, to manipulate human embryos, reexamines driverless cars in the wake of Uber deaths, and explores how advances in AI are enabling robots to perform tasks we naively assumed would remain the province of humans. Astonishing breakthroughs like these are arriving in increasing numbers. However, these same technologies raise the specter of a frightening, alienating future: eugenics, a jobless economy, a complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. As Wadhwa puts it, our choices will determine if our future is Star Trek or Mad Max.

Paperback, ISBN 978-1-5230-8553-8

PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-5230-8554-5

ePub ebook ISBN 978-1-5230-8555-2

Digital audio, ISBN 978-1-5230-8556-9