Photo by Karsten Moran Just interviewed Adam Alter, author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. He offers a compelling and unnerving trove of evidence that suggests our daily digital habits are often unhealthy and even dangerous at times. Alter outlines exactly how tech titans utilize knowledge of the brain's reward centers and our universal need for feedback to seduce digital users into coming back to their social networks, video games, and apps time and again—and sometimes never leaving them at all. I'll post the story when it goes live on WebMD.
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