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Join the Cardozo School of Law's Intellectual Property & Information Law Program as we present, A Conversation with Gaia Bernstein to discuss her new book, Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies. Gaia will be joined by Professor Sam Weinstein to discuss Unwired & how we can use the legal system to resolve technology overuse. Light refreshments will be available.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
**registration & proof of vaccination required**
More about Unwired:
Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out.
Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility & accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco & food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts & legislative halls. Groundbreaking & urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.
PRAISE for Unwired:
"Gaia Bernstein's Unwired offers a compelling roadmap for tackling one of our most pressing problems: the irresistible pull of technology. Over the course of our lives, we & our children will spend between fifteen & twenty years glued to our screens. As Bernstein shows, though, there are regulatory remedies at hand to help us retain our time & our wellbeing.
-Adam Alter, author of Irresistible & Drunk Tank Pink
"Unwired is a compelling, accessible, & vital intervention into the overuse of technology. Instead of offering overly simplistic self-help strategies that are doomed to fail, Professor Bernstein rightly targets the manipulative design of technologies & the need for us to work together to hold the tech industry accountable. This book vividly blends personal stories with the latest research & lessons from history to paint a clear picture of our struggle with screens & what it's going to take to improve things. Everyone should read this book.
-Woodrow Hartzog, author of Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies.
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