How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day | Tristan Harris

Tristan Harris, former Google design ethicist, gives a TED talk on how a few tech companies shape the attention and choices of billions of people. He argues that product design built to capture attention should be reshaped around people's time and wellbeing.

HN people use it as a reference for the claim that technology hijacks attention, and share it alongside discussions of teen mental health.

“Our society is being hijacked by technology”