How You Got Caught in the Net

This is a book about your fixation with the internet...and what caused it

It's a book about everyone who's gone round and round in circles checking their twitter feed, refreshing reddit, logging onto Facebook, and hovering over their inbox. Your behaviour has been cultivated by design. This is a book which demonstrates what instant culture has done to our consciousness, and how profoundly it will change our existence in the future.

Why do we do it? How much of our day are we wasting to it? Is it a problem for us? Are there ways we can stop it?

Everything from sex to the news is now available for our brains to consume instantly, but our brains didn't evolve in a world where this was possible. Has technology shortwired our brains? Are we like helpless moths flying aimlessly towards the light?