Tristan Harris : How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day

                                

TED 2017

Tristan Harris : How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day (transcript)

(The manipulative tricks tech companies use to capture your attention (previous title))

Summary

I didn't think that in this TED talk, the explanation of the speaker and Chris Anderson is easy to understand.

It's because they couldn't tell us that it'd be too late to restore our situation.

The speaker is the side to control us and Chris thinks that he can be in the area where he isn't controlled.

We, commoners, can't know the problem or even we can know it, our thoughts we ethically steer is steered.

Furthermore, how it has an influence on others is studied.

It means that tech companies, today, study how the handful of people working at a handful of technology companies through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking.

It already collects your data every day by scheduling you. You think that you decide your schedule yourself though when you swipe over notification, it schedules you into spending a little bit time getting sucked into something that maybe you didn't intend to get sucked into.

If you stop to use your phone, you turn to the side that receives an influence.

The speaker tells us how we fix it. We have to need to make three changes to technology and to our society. They are to see ourselves fundamentally in a new way, 1) to question big things 2) and to design renaissance. 3)
l think that they mean to think about the true connection. To be able to connect each other easily through our phones or some applications are not the true one. To have canceled dinner and to avoid feeling a little bit lonely don't have the true one also.

Stop relying too much on various superficial relationships.

I believe that the true connection must let the manipulative tricks tech companies use to capture our attention.

Words in this story

handful / a quantity that fills the hand.

renaissance / reconstruction

steer /  guide, direct, maneuver, drive, pilot, navigate, (of a person) guide or control the movement of (a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft), for example by turning a wheel or operating a rudder.