How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day -Tristan Harris
A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says design thinker Tristan Harris. From Facebook notifications to Snapstreaks to YouTube autoplays, they’re all competing for one thing: your attention. Harris shares how these companies prey on our psychology for their own profit and calls for a design renaissance in which our tech instead encourages us to live out the timeline we want.
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Why you should listen
Tristan Harris has been called “the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience” by The Atlantic magazine. Prior to founding the new Center for Humane Technology, he was Google’s Design Ethicist, developing a framework for how technology should “ethically” steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens.
Harris has spent a decade understanding the invisible influences that hijack human thinking and action. Drawing on literature from addiction, performative magic, social engineering, persuasive design and behavioral economics, he is currently developing a framework for ethical persuasion, especially as it relates to the moral responsibility of technology companies.
Rolling Stone magazine named Harris one of “25 People Shaping the World” in 2017. His work has been featured on TED, “60 Minutes,” HBO’s “RealTime with Bill Maher,” “PBS NewsHour,” Recode, The Atlantic, WIRED, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Economist and many more. Harris has briefed heads of state, technology company CEOs and members of the US Congress about the attention economy.)
Ref:https://www.ted.com/speakers/tristan_harris?referrer=playlist-the_race_for_your_attention
