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Hacking Back Our Happiness | Alex Salkever | TEDxSonomaCounty

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Alex Salkever shares how a near-death experience led him to reconsider his toxic relationship with technology and to examine how tech is hacking away at our collective happiness. In his Talk he lays out simple strategies that can help us all build healthier, happier lives with tech. Alex Salkever is co-author with Vivek Wadhwa of Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning The Battle To Control Your Brain - And How To Fight Back and The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Can Change the Future. He was named as a Finalist in the 2017 McKinsey Financial Times Book of the Year Competition. Alex explores exponentially advancing technologies such as robotics, genomics, renewable energy, quantum computing, artificial intelligence and driverless cars. He is a columnist for Fortune and previously served as the Technology Editor at BusinessWeek.com and as a Guest Researcher at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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