NATURE Best Books of the Year

The Cyber Effect by Mary Aiken is now in paperback, a fantastical and scary dive into our online lives and personas — and a crucial must-read for parents.

Human behavior changes online and the impact on child development needs more attention, not another decade of burying our heads in the sand.  I am proud to have been a writer and collaborated on this book — embraced already by a multitude of experts, including NATURE, the gold-standard for scientists — and really hope to work with Mary Aiken again. Besides being breathtakingly smart, she’s also hilariously fun.

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The Cyber Effect

Fascinating, wild, scary — finally, something that makes sense of the behavior we are seeing online and in real life these days. I am very proud to have collaborated with Mary Aiken on The Cyber Effect (Spiegel & Grau, 2016)

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“Just as Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement with her Silent Spring, Mary Aiken delivers a deeply disturbing, utterly penetrating, and urgently timed investigation into the perils of the largest unregulated social experiment of our time.” — Bob Woodward

“Drawing on a fascinating and mind-boggling range of research and knowledge, Mary Aiken has written a great, important book that terrifies then consoles by point a way forward so that our experience online might not outstrip our common sense. This is a must-read for this moment in time.”
— Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics.

“We can look away, we can deny it, but the more we’re online, the more compulsive, more secretive, more cruel and more disconnected from our better selves we are liable to become. This cyber-effect not only threatens adults but also is influencing our children and the kind of grown-ups they will be.”
— Catherine Steiner-Adair — in The Washington Post review.

 

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