The dark side: Review of book "Your happiness was hacked"

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Tech addiction tends to get obsessive nowadays, but there are ways to gain control and make technology a true enabler. Published in june this year, Your Happiness Was Hacked is a timely account of digital tech proliferation and its all-pervasive impact. The likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram and Netflix govern our lives in a far more significant way than we recognise. The authors delve deep as they analyse how technology is affecting our choices and leading to addiction, with consequences such as isolation and invasion of privacy. Happiness is their second book, the first being The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices will Create the Future, published in 2016. Read more at: https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/the-break-out-zone/the-dark-side/story/290670.html

Publication Date

2-12-2018

Publication Title

Business Today

Publisher

Living Media India Limited.

Keywords

Technnology, Privacy, Digital technology, Technology ecosystem

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https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/the-break-out-zone/the-dark-side/story/290670.html

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