# Professor Adam Alter's comments on technology addiction are featured; His book, "Irresistible," is referenced

1 Faculty News June 6, 2019 ![The Daily Register logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Daily-Register-logo-feature.jpg?itok=BnwsFGa8)>

Excerpt from [The Daily Register](http://www.ncregister.com/blog/josephpearce/techno-addiction-and-the-gollumizing-of-culture) -- "Is technology liberating? Does science-driven 'progress' make us happier? Not so, says social psychologist [Adam Alter](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/adam-alter) in his book, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. 'In the past, we thought of addiction as mostly related to chemical substances: heroin, cocaine, nicotine,' says Dr. Alter, an associate professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University."

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