Distracted? Let's make technology that helps us spend our time well | Tristan Harris | TEDxBrussels

Tristan Harris is a design thinker, philosopher and entrepreneur – most recently focused on Design Ethics.

Tristan is rated #16 in Inc Magazine's Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30, a former Mayfield Fellow in Stanford’s Technology Venture Program in Entrepreneurship, and graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Currently he’s developing a framework at Google to help product designers facilitate conscious choices for users. Before this, he was co-founder and CEO of Apture, an instant explanation engine that enabled millions of users to get on-the-fly explanations about any topic without leaving their place on the web. Google acquired Apture in 2011.

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[TheJorgenbo]

High five to those who have seen The Social Dilemma before coming here.

[uryzl]

It’s crazy that even when knowing you’re addicted to the phone, and knowing how your life would be if you weren’t addicted, but you can’t seem to let go of it. It really sucks, but it’s also a show of the lack of self discipline (which I have lol) in many people that don’t want to admit it, but this presentation was amazing and the social dilemma movie. This should be put in every school for when they have a movie day in class lol.

[joemurray]

So sad, yet not a suprise, to see that this video only has 50, 000 views compared the other ones about technology with millions. This is such an important issue...

[NganNguyen-hmqc]

I like the idea. The idea about messages can't be sent when the user is working on something else. That's amazing. Thank you Tristan Harris.

[sumaiasaif]

This video should have millions of views!!

[carrieforest]

Merging humanity with technology "Time Well Spent" this is a cutting edge concept!  Tristan Harris this is out of the box stretch your mind and heart type of thinking.  I especially like that this concept can provide opportunities for us to become compassionate toward those on the other side of my computer.  Choosing to live and work towards being respectful, purposeful and efficient in our daily task while using technology.  Fantastic Idea !  Elizabeth would agree!
Carrie Forest

[FriendlyHugo]

Moving from *Time Spent* to *Time Well Spent*?

In this TEDx talk by Tristan Harris, he campaigns for a change in design philosophy. Too often products are designed to simply suck you in and waste your time. The success metrics for such products are "the more time spent, the better"... the outcome is addictive designs that manipulate users with slot-machine psychology, and have no respect for users' time or their desire to live fulfilling lives.

To fix this fundamental nastiness in products, we need to change the metrics for design success, such that they measure actual _good_ outcomes for users. (Tristan gives some examples.) We need to choose design goals that will make the world a better place.

And this is truly possible - he suggests a solution by which such technology could be marketed, which should help make such design goals economically viable for all kinds of corporations.

#fb   #Mindful  

[uoieavillanueva]

Hope the algorithm of youtube could be based more on time well spent like these videos

Thank you sir so much! This was time well spent!

[sissichan]

It seems to be a revolution in the era of electronics and information.

[tranquil]

I'm really glad I can't relate to this at all. I check my emails once or twice a day. I rarely use my phone, and never check emails on my phone. There was a time where I definitely did and it's great now to see how much progress I've made after listening to this. No more Facebook, no more mindless browsing. There is intent behind my decisions to use YouTube for educational value, and other than that I'm not on social media platforms. I feel sorry for people who are a slave to their technology and who can't delay gratification. Even worse, I feel sorry for those who are actually gratified by the amount of trivial nonsense social media brings to their lives.

[Zunttak]

Thank you for this TEDx talk, I saw Tristan in the film "What Makes Us Click?" and was immediately amazed by his ideas. Thank you again :)

[BigHugeYES]

Love it. There was a TED Talk a while back related to this issue that focused on creating maps apps that could optionally direct you to the most pleasant route rather than the fastest route.

[RaRa-tldc]

Groundbreaking and eye opening. Loved it.

[fernandabernal]

Yo quiero esa nueva tecnología!!! El mundo lo necesita!!

[soniayounas]

I propose we have google etc search on key words not key words and what they think we want to see. Back to the basic Internet. Recommendations are good but individuality separate from algorithms is better. Lets keep auto play however :) loved the talk very humane which is rare these days online or offline. Ps I hate ads on google and YouTube. I feel lots of time wasted is on silly marketing techniques that just annoy us. We already pay the ISP's websites should make money from these. As for measuring them success vs time spent should be plenty as people would be using sites they want and not 'think' they want

[AFRICANGUY]

at the end of the day: is YOU, who chooses how to spend YOUR time!!

[abhijitv]

awesome !  superb thinking Kudos to you Tristan

[LemonCurry.]

When he says everything you can get is based on demand, I demand PC enterprises to seriously consider creating environmentally friendlier computers, because the electronics market hasn't produced anything like this yet.

[gavinwieland]

I love this video. It's so Coll and very educational.

[sehzadelee]

WOW, this man is far a head his time.