How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind

Inspired by https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3

If You Control the Menu, You Control the Choices

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,

because there will be no words in which to express it

1984

What’s not on the menu?

Fear of missing out

Slot machine in your pocket,

• irregular, intermittent reward schedule
• the feeling of a ‘near-miss’

Social approval

Reciprocity, you like me, I like you

Infinite feeds

Autoplay

Bottomless bowls

Interruption is good for business

Easy to get in, hard to cancel