We're all vulnerable to social approval. The need to belong, to be approved or appreciated by our peers is among the highest human motivations. But now our social approval is in the hands of tech companies. — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Traditional companies have been subject to licensing for many years. Attention utilities should be required to obey limits on data extraction and message amplification… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without them even… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Our online news feeds aggregate all of the world's pain and cruelty, dragging our brains into a kind of learned helplessness. Technology that provides… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
We're going to need a new social contract with the tech world one that asks for consent, and one with transparent goals. Right now,… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
For any company whose business model is advertising, or engagement-based advertising, meaning they care about the amount of time someone spends on the product,… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
If we really wanted to have a reorientation of the tech industry toward what's best for people, then we would ask the second question,… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Technology steers what 2 billion people are thinking and believing every day. It's possibly the largest source of influence over 2 billion people's thoughts… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
You're either on, and you're connected and distracted all the time, or you're off, but then you're wondering, am I missing something important? In… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Tech companies are distracting, dividing and outraging citizens to the point where there is little basis for common ground. This is a direct threat… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Once you start understanding that your mind can be scheduled into having little thoughts or little blocks of time that you didn't choose, wouldn't… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
We want to have a relationship with technology that gives us back choice about how we spend time with it, and we're going to… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
