Manoush Zomorodi's new book, Body Electric, is a joint project between NPR and Columbia University Medical Center that examines how technology is damaging human physical health. It follows her 2017 debut, Bored and Brilliant, which focused on tech's cognitive costs. This is not a solo opinion piece. It is an institutional collaboration backed by medical research.
Zomorodi built both books from years of podcast work, starting at WNYC's Note To Self before moving to NPR's TED Radio Hour. That reporting infrastructure gives Body Electric sourcing and scope most tech-wellness books lack. The physical health angle is the logical next step: she covered what screens do to your mind, now she is covering what they do to your body.
The full interview at The Verge goes deeper into her methodology and what she found. If you already accepted the mental health argument in Bored and Brilliant, the physical health data here will be harder to dismiss.
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