注意散漫を防ぐより良い技術

I wrote this piece to explain to the public how technology manipulates their minds, both intentionally and unintentionally. It’s comprehensive and meant for a broad audience – including parents, teachers and teenagers.

Joe Edelman, the ex-CTO of CouchSurfing in my TED talk and my collaborator on Time Well Spent. In this talk, he explains why we need to evolve companies ways of measuring success from simple maximizers (that maximize transactions) to reasons-based maximizers (which maximize the alignment between the deep human reasons people use services with businesses’ reasons.)

Damon’s TED talk is an important call to Silicon Valley to deepen its moral compass. As another former technology entrepreneur, his talk deeply inspired me to do the work that I do.

Neil Postman was a brilliant public intellectual who deeply understood how media shapes society. I thought I understood media and technology – and then I read Neil Postman it changed my worldview.