Resources on ethical technology and tech life balance
​More and more serious professionals start talking about the impact technology has on us. Some of them are listed below. It's important to spread the knowledge as much as we can. Are you with us?
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NB: This is a constantly updated list organized in an alphabetical order. If you know somebody authoritative in the area of tech life balance and ethical tech and think they should be mentioned here, please submit your proposal using the form below. Because ethical tech and digital detox is rapidly becoming a fashionable subject, and there is very mixed information about it, we will only publish links to established organizations and people with a strong reputation. If you are just starting and are generally inspired by the idea, please wait a little, and then we'll be happy to add you to the list

​Blogs & podcasts (free)

• Lawrence Ampofo, author of Digital Mindfulness podcast - weekly inspirational conversations on tech and people with experts
• Note To Self - weekly podcast of New York Public Radio by Manoush Zomorodi about preserving humanity in a digital age
• Nir Eyal - specialist on building addictive products, author of Hooked (see in books). Recently started blogging about how to "unhook" your brain from technology
• Tristan Harris - founder of Time Well Spent movement, blogs about ethics for designers. Also has an awesome TED talk​

Books worth reading

• Adam Alter Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking Scrolling Clicking and Watching 
• Andrew Keen The Internet is Not the Answer
• Cal Newport Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Cathy O'Neil Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
• Danah Boyd It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
• Gerd Leonhard Technology vs. Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine (FutureScapes)
• Julia Hobsbawm Fully connected: surviving and thriving in an age of overload
• Mary Aiken The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behaviour Changes Online
• Matthew Crawford The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction
• Nicholas Carr The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
• Nicholas Carr The Glass Cage: Who Needs Humans Anyway
• Nir Eyal Hooked: how to build habit-forming products (this book actually encourages to build habit-forming products, but is very useful to understand how your devices "hook" your brain)
• Richard and Daniel Susskind The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
• Sherry Turkle Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
• Sherry Turkle Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
• Tim Wu The Attention Merchants: How Our Time and Attention are Gathered and Sold

Researchers and their work
Dr David Greenfield - specialist on internet addiction, head of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, University of Connecticut

Places to digitally detox
Seymour Plus - Paris, France. The one and only physical technology-free zone in the centre of Paris offers five rooms for quiet contemplation and creativity. Donation-based.

Speakers, companies
Chris Flack, founder of Unplug.ie - focuses on mindfulness to help companies and individuals find a tech life balance
David Ryan Polgar aka "Tech ethicist". Specialist on cyber ethics, founder of Digital Citizenship Summit

Products
Freedom - blocking app for your phone that allows you to manage your digital distractions. Paid.
Rescuetime - browser extension that counts how much time you spend on certain websites. Has a free version
Stayfocusd - a simple browser extension that blocks all or chosen websites. Free
The Light Phone - a phone that only allows calls and messages, "designed to be used as little as possible"