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"Why are the world's greatest public technocrats also it's greatest private technophobes?"
This book made me want to throw my phone out the window. It was very good, but it was also very alarming to see all of the statistics presented. Not only was in presented on paper, but you can see it in the world today if you take a good look around.
Alter broke down the idea of addiction, not just making it about the dangers of technology. While he stresses this is only the beginning, and this is something that needs to be monitored, he also makes a point about how technology has been very helpful. We can't and shouldn't just abandon technology to go live in the woods. But we are at a point some are starting to notice the problems technology is starting, overshadowed and hidden by convenience.
The main idea Alter presented was that this is all about addiction. We are addicted to streaming services, smartphones, and wearable tech. And the creators behind them designed them that way. We need to have our phones on us all the time now, we need to get our steps in, we need to answer this one text despite being in another conversation with a person right in front of us. And it is not entirely our fault that we are addicted to these devices either. They're convenient and really nice to have.
I liked how this book was presented. It's not just about the dangers and evils of technology. The issue mainly is that we are only at the beginning of the technological age, and we won't know what this is really doing to us for many more years. This book was mainly a warning, an attempt to give people a heads up to what could be coming. And unfortunately I am seeing it just as well everyday, as I'm sure many other people are too.
This book made me want to throw my phone out the window. It was very good, but it was also very alarming to see all of the statistics presented. Not only was in presented on paper, but you can see it in the world today if you take a good look around.
Alter broke down the idea of addiction, not just making it about the dangers of technology. While he stresses this is only the beginning, and this is something that needs to be monitored, he also makes a point about how technology has been very helpful. We can't and shouldn't just abandon technology to go live in the woods. But we are at a point some are starting to notice the problems technology is starting, overshadowed and hidden by convenience.
The main idea Alter presented was that this is all about addiction. We are addicted to streaming services, smartphones, and wearable tech. And the creators behind them designed them that way. We need to have our phones on us all the time now, we need to get our steps in, we need to answer this one text despite being in another conversation with a person right in front of us. And it is not entirely our fault that we are addicted to these devices either. They're convenient and really nice to have.
I liked how this book was presented. It's not just about the dangers and evils of technology. The issue mainly is that we are only at the beginning of the technological age, and we won't know what this is really doing to us for many more years. This book was mainly a warning, an attempt to give people a heads up to what could be coming. And unfortunately I am seeing it just as well everyday, as I'm sure many other people are too.