Why We Can’t Look Away From Our Screens -
In a new book, “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked,” the social psychologist Adam Alter warns
that many of us — youngsters, teenagers, adults — are addicted to modern digital products.
An answer in the “A Conversation With” article on Tuesday, in which Adam Alter, a social psychologist, talked about his new book, “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology
and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked,” misstated the year Steve Jobs said in an interview that his children did not use iPads.
If you’re someone who compulsively plays video games — not everyone,
but people who are addicted to a particular game — the minute you load up your computer, your brain will look like that of a substance abuser.
Today, we have this phenomenon of behavioral addictions where, one tech industry leader
told me, people are spending nearly three hours a day tethered to their cellphones.
In general, I’d say find more time to be in natural environments, to sit face to
face with someone in a long conversation without any technology in the room.
