REBOOT: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World

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Technology is the mediator and middleman in nearly every relationship we have in modern life. Interwoven within the bonds between parents and kids, teachers and pupils, romantic partners, employees and bosses, midlife adults and aging parents, we are constantly making decisions about data and devices that affect not only us, but other people often our nearest and dearest.

Yet we speak as though technology is an active, powerful, unstoppable force, and we are the victims. What is this technology doing to us people ask. But are we as helpless as we assume

In REBOOT, psychologist Elaine Kasket disrupts common assumptions and fears about technologys impact on us, unfolding a different, more empowered, more individual way of responding to technology and its challenges at every age and stage.

For each phase of life, she explores how and why you may be pulled into using and thinking about technology in particular ways, even when those ways dont ultimately serve you or your relationships.

Come away curious about why you use technology the way you do; clear about how those choices are really working out; and with the tools to align your technology use with the kind of life and relationships you want. When you recognise and reclaim the extent of your power, what might become possible

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A critical reminder that, at every stage of life, we get to choose our relationship with technology and our choices shape our humanity. Kaskets book is a roadmap filled with generous possibilities. LUKE BURGIS, AUTHOR OF WANTING

Digital technologies arent just transforming every area of life. Theyre transforming us, and this book, examining the psychological, social and technological intersections of this transformation, couldnt be more timely. CATHERINE MAYER, AUTHOR OF GOOD GRIEF

Witty, bracingly honest, deeply humane and piercingly insightful PATRICK STOKES, AUTHOR OF DIGITAL SOULS

Reboot is an incredibly well researched and entertaining book. Kasket has the ability to illustrate complex research areas through engaging, human stories that often reach all the way into your heart. As a recent parent, this book really made me reevaluate the way I use technology around my family. I do research on the impact of digital technology for a living. Even so, this is undoubtedly one of the most thought-provoking books Ive read this year. CARL HMAN, AUTHOR OF THE AFTERLIFE OF DATA

Author Bio

ELAINE KASKET is a psychologist, speaker and writer, and an expert on the modern challenges and opportunities brought about by technology. Speaking about life, relationships, privacy and the power of big tech, Elaine appears frequently in the mainstream media as well as on podcasts and at major festivals. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She also serves as an Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton. All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of your Personal Data (2019) was her first book for a general audience. A reformed 'sharenter' when it comes to her own child, Elaine is a passionate believer in our right to control personal information and tell our stories.