What Happened in Vegas — with Natasha Dow Schüll

Natasha Dow Schüll, author of Addiction by Design, has spent
years studying how slot machines hold gamblers spellbound, in an
endless loop of play. She never imagined the addictive designs
which she had first witnessed in Las Vegas would go bounding into
Silicon Valley and reappear on virtually every smartphone screen
worldwide. In the first segment of this two-part interview,
Natasha Dow Schüll offers a prescient warning to users and
designers alike: How far can the attention economy go toward
stealing another moment of your time? Farther than you might
imagine.