How ‘Manipulative Tech’ — a Mashup of Psychology and Technology — Keeps Children Glued to Screens
There’s a reason drug dealers use the same term for their clients as tech companies do: ‘users.’ Both are dedicated to creating addiction.
“How many of you have closed your email and then immediately reopened it because you might have just gotten an email?”
Laughter rippled through the audience — including me — as we listened to Emily Cherkin give a talk at the Brearley School at Manhattan about tech and children and us: parents, children, educators, email addicts.
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