Tristan Harris says, in his 2017 60 Minutes Interview, “There’s always this narrative that technology’s neutral. And it’s up to us to choose how we use it. This is just not true.”

Behind the technology that you use is a team of thousands of programmers who are using your own personalized data to hook you. They are using classic psychological tactics... See more

Whenever you are tempted to put your phone down, the site keeps drip-feeding you the kind of material that it has learned, from your past behavior, keeps you scrolling. Older technologies—like the printed page, or the television—can’t target you in this way. Social media knows exactly where to drill. It learns your most distractible spots and targe

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Web interfaces deliberately emulate slot machines. The pacing, the colors, the hypnotic repetitions, and the like.