Food for the Matrix: How Big Tech Companies are Destroying Cultures Around the Globe… Starting with the Phone in your Hand by Andrea Fekete
“Never before in history have 50 designers, a group of white guys 20-30 years old made decisions that would impact 2 billion people. Today, 2 billion people will have thoughts they didn’t intend to have because a designer at Google said, ‘this is how notifications work.” –Tristan Harris, former Design Ethicist at Google, CEO of Center for Humane Technology Do social media platforms set out to impact you as a user beyond merely influencing what you purchase? Are your individually tailored social media experiences meant to induce political extremism, to transform you over time into a more reactionary, less empathetic, more tribalistic, more misinformed, depressed, and anxious...
