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The behavioural scientist has advised tech companies on how to get people hooked – now he’s telling us how to break the habit• Follow Eyal’s guide to avoiding digital distraction
In this podcast, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin explore the intersection of technology and human nature by interviewing a wide range of guest experts.
We want the time people spend on Facebook and Instagram to be intentional, positive and inspiring.
Aandacht is de belangrijkste grondstof van deze tijd geworden. Iedereen is erop uit: van getroebleerde YouTubers, tot de machtigste techbedrijven. Die laatste geven we er graag de schuld van dat we voortdurend afgeleid zijn. Maar dat is te simpel.
The GDPR might actually create an "attention economy"
Campaign to highlights potential harm of digital platforms and social media on young people, alongside a call to regulate tech companies
As we all know, time travelers h
Facebook is zo ontworpen dat we er verslaafd aan raken. Zo zijn we constant afgeleid. Maar als niemand zich kan concentreren, kan ook niemand meer voor zichzelf nadenken. Tijd om onze aandacht terug te eisen.
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
We wonen met zijn allen in Clickbaitistan. We offeren inhoud, schoonheid en intellect in hoog tempo op voor kliks. De komende tijd wil ik schrijven over initiatieven die gestaag bouwen aan een tegenbeweging. Vandaag: waarom ik belangrijk vind dat we clickbaitcynisme tegengaan.
Tim Wu chronicles the media world’s struggle to grab increasingly distracted customers.
But a phenomenon like this generates an enormous surplus of attention, much more than news can meet. In such a situation the internet’s craving for sex and humiliation is effectively infinite. This throws the Content industry into a frantic generative mode, initiating a full-spectrum stress test on par with a natural disaster or a war. This weekend was a consumption bonanza, a historic seller’s market for Content. This was no time for mere reports and analysis, no, that would never be enough. It was Take Time.
Take Time, the internet’s evolutionary defense against attention surplus, can be large or small, quick or long. A simple form of Take Time is the post-gaffe rush, which usually looks something like this, and occurs over a period of a few hours:
Take Time, the internet’s evolutionary defense against attention surplus, can be large or small, quick or long. A simple form of Take Time is the post-gaffe rush, which usually looks something like this, and occurs over a period of a few hours: