The cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris has been calling attention to how tech companies manipulate citizens and consumers.
Tristan Harris thinks that society is only just beginning to address the problems caused by the tech industry.has become one of the most prominent critics of the tech industry.
First as a product manager at Google and later as an outside critic of the tech industry, he's shone a light on what's been called the attention economy, the way our phones and apps and web services are constantly diverting and distracting us.News that Russian-linked provocateurs had hijacked Facebook and other social media sites to spread propaganda during the 2016 election helped boost his profile.
And I think now what's changed is that people do know — because they've been forced to know — that there's a problem. So now people are talking about what do we actually do about it. I just felt that everyone that I knew was really not doing the kind of big, creative thinking that people had used do in the 90s and the early 2000s and it was becoming instead this race to manipulate the human mind.I had a little bit of an epiphany. I went to the Santa Cruz mountains for a weekend with my friend Aza Raskin, who is now a cofounder of CHT. I came back from that weekend, after reconnecting with nature, and something profound kind of just hit me.
We have world governments knocking on our door, because they want to understand these issues. Briefing heads of state — I never thought I'd be doing that. This has been wild, and it speaks to the scope and gravity of the issue.The real lesson of Facebook's Apple dust-up shows why Zuckerberg's 'hacker way' is even more dangerous than we thought
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