In the article, Slot Machine in Your Pocket, Tristan Harris talks about how people become addicted to their phones just like slot machines and how people, on average, check their phones more than 100 times a day. In the article, 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' , Nicholas Carr refers to many sources about what google and the internet have done to us. Tristan Harris: Well every time I check my phone, I’m playing the slot machine to see, “What did I get?” This is one way to hijack people’s minds and create a habit, to form a.
Harris at Collision Conf 2018 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans | |
| Born | 1984 (age 35–36)[1] |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Website | www.tristanharris.com |
Tristan Harris (/trɪsˈtɑːn/) is an American computer scientist, and businessperson. He is the president and a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.[2][3] Earlier, he worked as a design ethicist at Google.[4] He received his degree from Stanford, where he studied the ethics of human persuasion.[5]
Biography[edit]
He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area by a single mother. Later on, he studied computer science at Stanford University while interning at Apple Inc., then embarked on a master's degree at Stanford, where he took a class from B. J. Fogg, who runs Persuasive Technology Lab; Harris was not a member of this lab[6]. Harris studied the psychology of behavior change.[1] Tristan was classmates with one of Instagram’s founders, Kevin Systrom, and helped create a demo app with the other founder, Mike Krieger.[7]
In 2007, Harris dropped out of the master's program at Stanford.[1] He launched a startup called Apture, which was focused on bringing instantaneous search to content on the web.[8][9] Google acquired Harris’s company Apture in 2011 and he ended up working on Google Inbox.[1]
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In 2020, Harris starred in the film The Social Dilemma, distributed by Netflix. Harris joined other activists to describe the incentives of social media companies and their impacts on society.[10]
Opinions on technology use[edit]
Harris authored “A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users’ Attention” and shared the presentation with a handful of his Google coworkers in February 2013. In that presentation, Harris suggested that Google, Apple and Facebook should “feel an enormous responsibility” to make sure humanity doesn't spend its days buried in a smartphone.[11] The 141-slide deck was eventually viewed by tens of thousands of Google employees and sparked conversations about the company's responsibilities long after he left the company.[11][12] Harris holds several patents from his previous work at Apple, Wikia, Apture, and Google.[13]
Harris left Google in December 2015 to focus on a nonprofit called Time Well Spent, which he co-founded.[1][14] Through Time Well Spent, Harris hoped to mobilize support for an alternative built around core values at tech corporations, chief of which is helping us spend our time well, instead of demanding more of it. Harris asserts that all human minds can be hijacked and the choices they make are not as free as they think they are. [15]The Atlantic stated in their November 2016 issue that “Harris is the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience.”[1]
He coined the phrase 'human downgrading' to describe the interconnected system of mutually reinforcing harms – addiction, distraction, isolation, polarization, fake news – that weakens human capacity, caused by technology platforms with the extractive business model to capture human attention.[7]
References[edit]
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- ^ abcdefBosker, Bianca. 'What Will Break People's Addictions to Their Phones?'. The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
- ^'Center for Humane Technology: Most Innovative Company | Fast Company'. Fast Company. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
- ^'Subscribe to read'. Financial Times. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
- ^Girish, Devika (2020-09-09). ''The Social Dilemma' Review: Unplug and Run'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ^'When Tech Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself'. WIRED. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
- ^Barber, Phil. 'Santa Rosa native Tristan Harris takes on Big Tech in Netflix documentary 'The Social Dilemma''. Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
- ^ ab'Tech is Downgrading Humans'. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^'Google Buys Contextual Rich News Browsing Startup Apture To Beef Up Chrome'. TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
- ^Harris, Tristan (2018-11-17). 'Tristan Harris on LinkedIn'. LinkedIn.
- ^Girish, Devika (2020-09-09). ''The Social Dilemma' Review: Unplug and Run'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ abHaselton, Todd (2018-05-10). 'Google employee warned in 2013 about five psychological weaknesses that could be used to hook users'. CNBC. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
- ^Newton, Casey (2018-05-10). 'Google's new focus on well-being started five years ago with this presentation'. The Verge. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
- ^'The Problem'. Center for Humane Technology. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
- ^'Google's new focus on well-being started five years ago with this presentation'. The Verge. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
- ^Lewis, Paul (2017-10-06). ''Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia'. The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-11-17.