How to Defend Yourself Against Deadly Weapons of Mass Distraction

How to Defend Yourself Against Deadly Weapons of Mass Distraction
Telling [social media] companies not to distract people is like telling an oil company not to drill for oil. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock
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Johann Hari’s book on the attention crisis was prompted by his godson’s addiction to his screens and his inability to focus and by the author’s own struggles with attention and distraction.

Hari is a British-Swiss journalist who has written books on depression and the war on drugs and has given hugely popular TED talks on addiction and depression. He was involved around 2011 in a controversy about plagiarism and anonymous Wikipedia edits but he has acknowledged his ethical failures.

Tim O'Sullivan
Tim O'Sullivan
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Tim O’Sullivan taught health care policy in Ireland and completed a Ph.D. on the principle of subsidiarity.
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