“The police, army and refugees could agree” that they “all dreaded a day without internet”
This is a heck of a story: Kevin MacRitchie surveyed the inferno spreading across Diavata refugee camp. From his vantage point on the roof, where he had been
Chocolate and “likes” activate the same parts of the teenage brain
The same brain circuits that are activated by eating chocolate and winning money are activated when teenagers see large numbers of "likes" on their own photos or the
Tim Wu on the “sofalarity”
I missed this in when it first came out in 2014: In his book “What Technology Wants,” Kelly writes: “Technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency; Increasing opportunity;
Greyscale your smartphone screen to make it less compelling
I hadn’t heard of this idea until this Atlantic video from James Hamblin:
The Internet of Things is just another way to distract you
One of the things you always, and I mean always, hear about Internet of Things and smart home devices is that they “just work.” They’re all like these
16 hours a month on Facebook is the new normal
A new study by Comscore of Americans’ social media network use in 2015 reveals that people over 35 spend an average of 22 hours a month on social
Addiction, cellphone use, and depression
As someone who wrote a book called The Distraction Addiction, this new study by University of Illinois researchers Alejandro Lleras and Tayana Panova caught my eye: Is cellphone use detrimental
My CSCW ’16 talk on focus, mind-wandering, and connectivity
[This is a transcript, slightly cleaned up, of a talk I gave earlier today at CSCW 2016. I was asked by Gloria Mark to join a panel on
“College students who are addicted to the Internet report positive and negative effects on their family relationships”
Georgia State University researcher Susan Snyder is studying the impact of Internet addiction (or PIU, Problematic Internet Use, described as >25 hours/week of non-school or -work use) on family
Smartphones, FOMO, and why email is the Ted Cruz of the tech world
One of the common threads running between Rest and my previous book The Distraction Addiction is that both encourage readers to see themselves as able to resist the