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Left to Our Own Devices - Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus (Hardcover)
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Left to Our Own Devices - Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus (Hardcover)
Series: Left to Our Own Devices
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Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what
matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to
celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned
about the psychological perils of technology: distraction,
difficulty empathizing, and loss of the ability (or desire) to
carry on a conversation. But our devices and data are woven into
our lives. We can't simply reject them. Instead, Margaret Morris
argues, we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and
values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of
individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways-uses that go
beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines
these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that
people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection,
enhance well-being, and affirm identity. Morris, a clinical
psychologist and app creator, shows how people really use
technology, drawing on interviews she has conducted as well as
computer science and psychology research. She describes how a
couple used smart lights to work through conflict; how a woman
persuaded herself to eat healthier foods when her photographs of
salads garnered "likes" on social media; how a trans woman
celebrated her transition with selfies; and how, through augmented
reality, a woman changed the way she saw her cancer and herself.
These and the many other "off-label" adaptations described by
Morris cast technology not just as a temptation that we struggle to
resist but as a potential ally as we try to take care of ourselves
and others. The stories Morris tells invite us to be more
intentional and creative when left to our own devices.
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