Nir Eyal is the best-selling author of books such as Hooked andIndistractible, about the addictive design of digital tech. And he reviewed my latest book about the impact of digital tech, titledLife Beyond the Touch Screen. How I got in touch with Nir, what he said and what it means for an indie author.
After ten years with massive popularity, controversion and hype around the blockchain, what real world effects have we seen? And what will happen in the future when the technology gets more widely adopted, becomes more tried and tested and crawls out of the tech hype cycle’s ‘trough of disillusionment’?
I just finished reading “21 lessons for the 21st century” byYuval Noah Harari, one of my favorite writers and well-known for his best-sellers “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus”. In the new book, Harari gladly recycles and bundles outtakes from those and other previous publications, and mainly adds a lot of questions.
Love, note. This is the day we share our love notes. Digitally and otherwise. Acting fake surprised and spend some time with our lovers, celebrating flutters from the butterflies in our eyes.
Can any of us truly maintain that we choose what we choose freely in today’s world? What is unethical manipulation, what is the role of tech, and how can we discern it or protect ourselves from it?