{"id":3026,"date":"2017-01-13T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2017-01-13T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T23:48:29","slug":"caht-1817-newsletter-how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds%e2%80%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/?p=3026","title":{"rendered":"CAHT 1\/8\/17 Newsletter: How Technology Hijacks People\u2019s Minds\u200a"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Technology Hijacks People\u2019s Minds\u200a\u2014\u200afrom a Magician and Google\u2019s Design\u00a0Ethicist<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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By Tristan Harris <\/a> May 18, 2016 <\/span><\/cite><\/div>\n
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Western Culture is built around ideals of individual choice and freedom. Millions of us fiercely defend our right to make \u201cfree\u201d choices, while we ignore how those choices are manipulated upstream by menus we didn\u2019t choose in the first place.<\/span><\/cite><\/span><\/div>\n
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The more choices technology gives us in nearly every domain of our lives (information, events, places to go, friends, dating, jobs)\u200a\u2014\u200athe more we assume that our phone is always the most empowering and useful menu to pick from<\/i>. Is it?<\/span>
\nThe \u201cmost empowering\u201d menu is different than the menu that has the most choices<\/i><\/b>. <\/i>But when we blindly surrender to the menus we\u2019re given, it\u2019s easy to lose track of the difference:<\/span><\/p>\n