Maybe you are. How exactly would you know? The digital police aren’t going to flag you when you’ve met your technology threshold. On the other hand, constant use has become normalized. The toddler ...
AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to ...
In a landmark ruling against Meta and YouTube this week, a Los Angeles jury determined that tech addiction is real—and dangerous. They awarded a combined $6 million in damages to a young woman who ...
The octet is a musical ensemble of eight, which isn’t a huge number — certainly not on a theatrical stage or for a classical chorus. Yet the octopus has just that same eight tentacles, and in horror ...
Addiction is a pathology. It is not simply liking something a lot. In over a decade of researching, teaching, and writing about the power of technology to shape our behavior, I’ve come across many ...