Tech Wretched: Addiction and Other Stories: Silicon Valley “Big Brothers” Doom Users to Constant Connection

by Dave Masko

Tech Wretched: Addiction and Other Stories, by Dave Masko. The dirty underbelly of the so-called Internet revolution reveals an odious Silicon Valley that’s used digital smartphone technology to negatively affect user’s life; while causing considerable anguish and true mental addiction when it comes to a user’s constant craving for online connection. The fall of Silicon Valley is the subject of this collection of “new journalism” essays and reports that reveal ITs (information technology) grotesque methods for driving user addiction that is at epidemic levels today in 2017. The tech sorrows are explained by real people in face-to-face conversations and interviews that span more than 20 years of covering the rise and fall of the information technology “beast.” This collection of new journalism essays and reports are startlingly original, often eye-opening and frequently unsettling. That’s because most tech addicted forget they are hooked into machine 24/7, while checking their smartphone some 600 times, on average, each and every day. This tech leash or tether is why so many users are “Tech Wretched” today in 2017. Meanwhile, there are many people who argue that something like the washing machine was more revolutionary than the Internet because the washing machine liberated women from this tedious job and being a domestic servant. In short, there are groups such as the “Pro-People” movement here in the Pacific Northwest that decry digital technology addiction because ITs a waste of time. The “Pro-People” movement is not a community of rules and procedures but of virtue. As such, it is a community of deep understanding when it comes to the zeitgeist and this peculiarly addicting Silicon Valley darkness that is the subject matter of his e-book thesis or argument that information technology addiction is a modern life tragedy that impacts youth in a very fierce way leading to unhappy lives and even part and parcel of today’s teen suicide epidemic. It’s rare to find a collection of non-fiction reports that so accurately explores the addictive process that today’s corporate controlled news media do not even report it. Why? IT is all about the familiar and even trending problem of digital saturation: the instantaneous availability of this virtual life online that is not real, and a lie.

57 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 2, 2017