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I have tried — often in vain — to limit my screen time. But I've also been thinking, what aren't these tech execs telling us?

I have tried — often in vain — to limit my screen time. But I've also been thinking, what aren't these tech execs telling us?

Cartoon by Pat Byrnes By that spring, Alex Kearns, a twenty-year-old student at the University of Nebraska, had been using Robinhood for about two years. The app had permitted him to trade options just months after he opened his account. Kearns grew up in Naperville, Illinois, with his sister and his parents. His father is an I.T. professional at a financial-services firm. The family was close. Kearns was known as an anxious but positive young man who played trombone in the high-school band, received a school-spirit award, and joined the R.O.T.C. at Nebraska, where he majored in business mana...

January 24, 2021 Tech companies can mine big data to determine exactly what keeps us glued to our phones, making social media, games and other apps ever more addictive. South China Morning Post Walking, reclining, dining, playing, commuting, shopping: people around the world read their smartphones regardless of where they are or what they’re doing, unable to tear their eyes from their screens regardless of whether they’re on a crowded street or working out at the gym. Adam Alter, an author and professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, believes modern tech...

Modern tech companies are preying on our capacity for ‘behavioural addiction’, marketing professor Adam Alter says The long-term consequences of technology addiction can be social, financial and even physical, he says, suggesting people schedule screen-free time