Repentant tech leaders formed Time Well Spent to curb addictive design.
Evidence
Grafton Tanner makes a similar point in “Digital Detox: Big Tech’s Phony Crisis of Conscience,” a short piece on the repentant tech entrepreneurs who have realized just how addictive their technology is. Working via initiatives like Time Well Spent, an advocacy group that aims to curb the design of addictive technology, former Facebook president Sean Parker and ex-Google employees Tristan Harris and James Williams have become fervent opponents of the attention economy. But Tanner is unimpressed: They fail to attack the attention economy at its roots or challenge the basic building blocks of late capitalism: market fundamentalism, deregulation, and privatization. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 330
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Behavioral engineering once reviled is now openly embraced by tech leadership — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1266; Tech detox movements reinforce rather than challenge late capitalism. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 330; Phone addiction stems from engineered infrastructure, not personal weakness — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 328
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Behavioral engineering once reviled is now openly embraced by tech leadership — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1266; Tech detox movements reinforce rather than challenge late capitalism. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 330; Phone addiction stems from engineered infrastructure, not personal weakness — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 328
Broader Connections
- Behavioral engineering once reviled is now openly embraced by tech leadership
#complicates(0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1266 - Tech detox movements reinforce rather than challenge late capitalism.
#complicates(0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 330