For every season of your life, for every milestone you hit, for everything you do, there’s a gadget for that. Digital technologies are your ever-present companions, your friends and your foes, powerful forces shaping and influencing your personality, relationships, and quality of life.

As you enter each stage of modern existence, you encounter new psychological and technological dilemmas – and that means old ideas about human development and thriving need a reboot.

Cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket has done just that, mapping and exploring the thoroughly modern life span, which now stretches from digital gestation to digital afterlife. The aim? To get you to stop stressing over things you can’t control – like the machinations of big tech – and focus closer to home, so you can reclaim the fullest possible power and agency over your life in a tech-obsessed world.

In her signature storytelling style, Kasket inspires you to make values-driven, self-aware, smart choices about technology – choices that will help you be the person, parent and partner you want to be.

Praise

‘Witty, bracingly honest, deeply humane and piercingly insightful, Reboot is both a call to take back our digital agency and an empowering toolkit for helping us to do so.’
Patrick Stokes 

‘A critical reminder that, at every stage of life, we get to choose our relationship with technology – and our choices shape our humanity. Kasket’s book is a roadmap filled with generous possibilities.’
Luke Burgis, Author of Wanting

‘Digital technologies aren’t just transforming every area of life. They’re transforming us, and this book, examining the psychological, social and technological intersections of this transformation, couldn’t be more timely.’
Catherine Mayer, Author of Good Grief

‘Reboot is an incredibly well researched and entertaining book … I do research on the impact of digital technology for a living. Even so, this is undoubtedly one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve read this year.’
Carl Öhman, Author of The Afterlife Of Data