How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — The Startup — Medium

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — The Startup — Medium

I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does…