AF: Tristan Harris

Here's the guy.  Watch this 17 minute TED talk, and this will put both Wu and Carr into context.  I just listened to Harris on two different podcasts, and he blew my mind.  The last question he was asked on one of them was, "What books would you like to point us to?  What is important to read right now?" and he said (among other things), "Neil Postman.  Either Amusing Ourselves to Death, or Technopoly."   You gotta love that.  I sure do!

The idea here is not that technology is BAD.  The idea is that technology should be TIME WELL SPENT, not time wasted.  We all know that feeling of being pulled in to something that just burns our time when we should or want to be doing something else.  Like sleeping, for example.

Tristan Harris on the Sam Harris "Waking Up" podcast.

Tristan Harris on the Ezra Klein podcast.  

By the way, Sam Harris and Ezra Klein don't like each other AT ALL.  Put both of those names in a Google Search box, and you will land in the middle of a big public argument -- it's fascinating. I think I'll use their public fight in class when we start studying argument.