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Saying ‘Don’t use these techniques’ is essentially
saying ‘Don’t make your products fun to use.’
That’s silly. With every new technology, the older
generation says ‘Kids these days are using too
much of this and too much of that and it’s melting
their brains.’ And it turns out that what we’ve
always done is to adapt.
But Harris doesn’t buy it. The onus is on software designers, he says, to
avoid making us all addicted to their products:
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Never before in history have the decisions of a
handful of designers (mostly men, white, living in
SF, aged 25-35) working at 3 companies [Google,
Facebook, and Apple] had so much impact on
how millions of people around the world spend
their attention. We should feel an enormous
responsibility to get this right.
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