How Technology Is Hijacking Your Mind • Discoverology

How Technology Is Hijacking Your Mind

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I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want to show you where it might do the opposite.

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