A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention (51 page)

Wisdom 2.0 conference, 374

work, media interruptions of, 70

World War II:

pilots in, 4, 5, 99, 101, 122–23, 219

technology in, 98–100, 141, 143–44

Wozniak, Steve, 68

Wyatt, Scott, 135, 318

Yale study, “Are Internet and Video-game-playing Addictive Behaviors?,” 193–94, 197–98

Yonk, Kaylene, 289–94, 302, 307, 314

Young, Brigham, 42, 382

Zero Fatalities, 319, 331

Zundel, Jason, 44

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MATT RICHTEL
reports for the
New York Times
, covering a range of issues, including the impact of technology on our lives. In 2010 he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles that exposed the pervasive risks of distracted driving and its root causes, prompting widespread reform. He is the author of three novels, including, mostly recently,
The Cloud
. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Columbia Journalism School, he is based in San Francisco, where he lives with his wife, Meredith Barad, a neurologist, and their two children.

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CREDITS

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Author Photograph © by Meredith Barad

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COPYRIGHT

A DEADLY WANDERING
. Copyright © 2014 by Matthew Richtel. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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EPUB Edition September 2014 ISBN 9780062284082

ISBN 978-0-06-228406-8

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