The Acceleration of Addictiveness
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness
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amazon.comThe years ahead are likely to bring ever more powerful technologies that can exploit our ways of thinking, fuelling addictive and compulsive behaviour. The world has lots of experience of trying to handle or at least contain potentially destructive addictive behaviours. Will these prompt new temperance movements, focused now on digital behaviours (
... See moreOne of its most famous investors, Paul Graham, wrote: “Unless the forms of technological progress that produced these things are subject to different laws than technological progress in general, the world will get more addictive in the next forty years than it did in the last forty.”