Author: Gaia BernsteinSocial forecasting, future studies | Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments | Information technology industries | International communications & telecommunications law | IT & Communications law | Social security & welfare law | Impact of science & technology on society | Technology: general issues | Communications engineering / telecommunications | Computer networking & communicationsPublished on 19th March 2026 by Cambridge University Press in the United Kingdom.Paperback / softback | 248 pages, Worked examples or Exercises 139mm x 217mm x 18mm | 338g Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.
