# Professor Adam Alter's TED talk on the impact of mobile devices on free time is featured

1 Faculty News May 28, 2017 ![Business Insider logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/business%20insider%20logo.jpg?itok=0MJSCdPh)>

Excerpt from [Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/have-a-screen-sabbatical-more-free-time-2017-5) -- "[Alter](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/adam-alter) said in his talk that screens 'rob us of stopping cues,' which are signals that remind us to move on. The distraction and entertainment is constant, unlike a newspaper which finishes when you reach the end. Instead, there is no obvious time to stop — so we don't."

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