Eric Rushing

…o co-found a nonprofit called Time Well Spent, which later became the Center for Humane Technology. The idea was that technology companies and social media platforms were optimizing for metrics such as user growth, engagement, and time spent on their sites, but not the value that users were deriving from them. That led them to create products that were calculated to be addictive, rather than useful or good f…

… overall result is weird. We learn of things we didn’t know. We see things we’ve never seen before. But misinformation also spreads. Conspiracies abound. Surveillance is normalized. Inequalities deepen. Policy decisions seem increasingly ad hoc or responsive to a separate reality. Entire microeconomies are created based purely on who can most influence the buttons we press on a screen.

… misinformation also spreads. Conspiracies abound. Surveillance is normalized. Inequalities deepen. Policy decisions seem increasingly ad hoc or responsive to a separate reality. Entire microeconomies are created based purely on who can most influence the buttons we press on a screen.