Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies

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Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies

By Gaia Bernstein
Cambridge University Press March 2026

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9781009257947
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
March 2026
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Paperback
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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 and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls.

Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Part I. The Price of the Illusion of Control
1. Becoming the Choice-Makers
2. Addiction, Our Children, Our Bonds
3. Invisible Chains

Part II. Who Are the Choice Makers?
4. Clouds of Smoke
5. The Food Wars
6. The Privacy Phoenix
7. Lessons from Battling Titans

Part III. Fighting for Choice
8. The Art of Redesign
9. The Tools of Awareness
10. The Ground is Burning
11. The Achilles Heel
12. Acupuncture for Change

Epilogue
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