Great review about the impact of technology on children. It is interesting that it is an addiction like any other, but we allow children to go deeper and deeper into it with bad consequences. Sometimes the book feels a little bit repetitive and probably could have been shortened, but it is still worth it every page.

"Technologies are problematic when they optimize profits at the expense of the health and wellbeing of individuals and the larger society. Yet no independent review of the potential harms and benefits of tech products is required before they go on the market."

"Children in the United States today are growing up in a culture profoundly shaped by a troubling combination of what psychologist and philosopher Shoshana Zuboff and others have called 'surveillance capitalism', which is fueled by the tech industry's mining of personal information for profit, and 'corporate capitalism', which is dominated by huge privately owned businesses whose primary obligation is to make money for their shareholders. Today, these forces combine to create what's best described as 'consumer capitalism', a sociopolitical economic system driven by, and in thrall to, consumption. Consumer capitalism depends on a population that must be primed continually to buy the things that businesses sell. Corporations, mass-producing goods for sale, stoke consumer demand through mass marketing designed to foment desire for products by blurring the distinction between wants and needs."

"No one can seriously suggest that children are rational consumers who have the same power, information, and freedom that adults are said to have to freely enter into contracts for goods and services. Advertising to children is, then, a kind of immoral war on childhood, waged for the profit of adults who should be childhood's guardians."

I will leave the book in the library of 3200 Washington Street apartment building in Jamaica Plain, Boston. This is a private building and the library is on the second floor, so it will take some luck for some bookcrosser to find it, but as there are many books in this library which are frequently used by the people living in the building, hopefully somebody will find it and maybe that person will become a new bookcrosser.