We often fantasize about raising our kids in a simpler, screen-free world. Daniel Sieberg, Google exec and author of The Digital Diet, is more realistic: He simply advocates a thoughtful and measured use of digital devices. We chatted with the father of two about finding a balance between i-addiction and going cold turkey on technology.<\/p>\n
What made you realize you needed to change your relationship to digital technology?<\/p>\n
It was during the holidays in 2009, when I was visiting family and friends back home in Canada. Despite feeling like the most connected person on the planet, I had somehow lost touch with what was happening in the lives of people I cared about. I had become a terrific broadcaster and a terrible communicator. That, plus my wife repeatedly referring to me as \u201cglowworm,\u201d since my face was always illuminated by some kind of screen while lying in bed \u2014 something that does not lend itself to intimacy. Ahem.<\/p>\nClick here to read more<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [image_with_animation animation=”Fade In” image_url=”http:\/\/speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/helppleasedanielsieberg.jpg” delay=”150″] [\/image_with_animation] We often fantasize about raising our kids in a simpler, screen-free world. Daniel Sieberg, Google exec and author of The Digital Diet, is more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,7,9,8,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-celebrity-speakers","8":"tag-daniel-sieberg","9":"tag-digital-diet","10":"tag-social-media","11":"tag-speaker"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/daniel-sieberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}