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