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Humane

A New Agenda for Tech


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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Eye Opening
  • Concrete Examples
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Tristan Harris, dubbed the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience” by The Atlantic magazine, argues convincingly that the world’s most sophisticated digital platforms – YouTube, Facebook, Google, and the like – are designed to “downgrade humans.” Happily, the bleak situation Harris outlines isn’t irreparable. What if technology companies shifted their focus from vying for people’s attention to helping individuals become the best versions of themselves? Harris explains how the tech industry and society can accomplish this pivot.

Take-Aways

  • Digital technology is exploiting human weaknesses.
  • To make technology more humane, tech developers must base their work on a more sophisticated understanding of human nature.
  • Society needs to build the necessary momentum to realign technology with humanity’s best interests.

About the Speaker

Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google, is the director and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and co-founder of the Time Well Spent movement.