Rebelling against attention economy, Humane Tech movement expands (via www.aljazeera.com)
A growing coalition of social groups is pushing back against tech companies that feed digital addiction and overload. Source: www.aljazeera.com
A growing coalition of social groups is pushing back against tech companies that feed digital addiction and overload. Source: www.aljazeera.com
At a preliminary Senate hearing today on the subject of potentially putting legislative limits on the persuasiveness of technology—a diplomatic way of saying the addiction model the internet uses to keep people engaged and clicking—Tristan Harris, the executive director of the Center for Humane Technology, told lawmakers that while rules…
Is Republican senator Josh Hawley an advocate for video game players or an ambitious politician with a savvy staff who know a win-win argument when they see one? The freshman senator from Missouri, who plans to soon introduce a bill that will ban loot boxes and pay-to-win microtransactions, spoke to…