Attention Quote by Tristan Harris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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