Speaking in Denver this Thursday at Tattered Cover
I'm doing a reading and book signing at the Tattered Cover Bookstore on Colfax Avenue, located in the historic Bonfils-Lowenstein Theater. The event will start at 7:30 pm. Dress
“a potent mix of psychology, philosophy and common sense”
Kim Ukura reviews The Distraction Addiction on her award-winning book blog, Sophisticated Dorkiness: On some level, most of what Pang outlines in this book isn’t new. But it
My interview with the Buddhist Geeks
Episode 299 of the Buddhist Geeks podcast has just gone up. In it, I talk with Vincent Horn about contemplative computing, the illusion of technological determinism, and of
…in which, in an article on technology and gratification, I assure readers that I’m not a drunk
The San Jose Mercury News is running a big series on how information technology is affecting modern life, and this weekend they had a long piece on gratification.
“A highly readable yet substantive examination of our relationship with all forms of computerized activity”
Nearly a month ago the Roanoke (Virginia) Times ran a review of The Distraction Addiction, and I only found it today. They liked it. His advice is scholarly
The Distraction Addiction “brims with suggestions for how to embrace… a mindful approach to digital technology”
The October 28 issue of The New Yorker features a review by Evgeny Morozov of The Distraction Addiction, along with Dave Eggers' The Circle, Douglas Rushkoff's Future Shock,
Rest is Not Idleness: John Lubbock, Charles Darwin, and the Value of Daydreams
You should read this very interesting article about daydreaming by Jessica Lahey in the Atlantic. I’ve been reading about daydreaming extensively lately, and it has caused me regret
Distraction Addiction in the Brazilian press
O Globo, one of the major Brazilian newspapers, recently had a piece about The Distraction Addiction. It's in Portuguese, obviously, but still.... Um dos truísmos do nosso tempo
“It’s not a bad thing to help your technology grow up a little:” Elle Magazine on The Distraction Addiction
Somehow I managed not to flag this article about "How the Internet, Social Media and Smartphones are Dividing and Conquering Our Consciousness" in the October issue of Elle
First foreign edition of The Distraction Addiction is out. Maybe.
The first translation rights for The Distraction Addiction were sold (at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which coincidentally is going on right now) to a Dutch publisher. This was