Book Launch: Unwired by Gaia Bernstein

Join the Cardozo School of Law's Intellectual Property and Information Law Program as we present, A Conversation with Gaia Bernstein to discuss her new book, Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies. Gaia will be joined by Professor Sam Weinstein to discuss Unwired and how we can use the legal system to resolve technology overuse. Light refreshments will be available.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

**registration and proof of vaccination required**

More about Unwired:

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.

PRAISE for Unwired:

"Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired offers a compelling roadmap for tackling one of our most pressing problems: the irresistible pull of technology. Over the course of our lives, we and our children will spend between fifteen and twenty years glued to our screens. As Bernstein shows, though, there are regulatory remedies at hand to help us retain our time and our wellbeing.”

-Adam Alter, author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink

"Unwired is a compelling, accessible, and vital intervention into the overuse of technology. Instead of offering overly simplistic self-help strategies that are doomed to fail, Professor Bernstein rightly targets the manipulative design of technologies and the need for us to work together to hold the tech industry accountable. This book vividly blends personal stories with the latest research and lessons from history to paint a clear picture of our struggle with screens and what it’s going to take to improve things. Everyone should read this book.”

-Woodrow Hartzog, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 55 5th Avenue, New York, United States