Left to Our Own Devices
Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus

For a book that purports to outsmart smart technology, much of it is devoted to using technology to engage in surveillance of your friends and loved ones, place technological barriers between human beings' normal social interactions, use artificial intelligence to simulate dead relatives, and do cr......more

If nothing else, the title of this book intrigued me, in part because it reminded me of a Pet Shop Boys track from my youth. More seriously, the subtitle of the book: - Outsmarting smart technology to reclaim our relationships, health and focus resonated with a lot of recent media coverage about the......more

The main title charms with its clever turn of phrase, but the sub-title “outsmarting smart technology” nails the central premise of the book. Technology can never be as smart as people, because people live in a contextualized world of concerns, connections, and commitments. Margaret Morris demonstra......more

Reframing Our Relationship with Smart Phone Technology While it is easy to complain about how smart phones are taking over our lives and how we wish for the simpler days of long, uninterrupted meditations, meals, and meetings, it is harder to remember, just as the fish doesn't see the water in which......more

Brings some thought provoking ideas and perspectives that we don't usually think of when using everyday devices such as mobile phones. Written in a highly entertaining way but misses the depth of analytical work.......more