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What if we had fixed social media?

What if we had fixed social media?

Your Undivided Attention vor 9 Monaten

Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin imagine what a world with humane technology might look like—one where we recognized the harms of social media early and worked to fix them. This alternative history serves to show that there are narrow pathways to a better fu

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We really enjoyed hearing all of your questions for our annual
Ask Us Anything episode. There was one question that kept coming
up: what might a different world look like? The broken incentives
behind social media, and now AI, have done so much damage to our
society, but what is the alternative? How can we blaze a
different path?

In this episode, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin set out to answer
those questions by imagining what a world with humane technology
might look like—one where we recognized the harms of social media
early and embarked on a whole of society effort to fix them.

This alternative history serves to show that there are narrow
pathways to a better future, if we have the imagination and the
courage to make them a reality.

Your Undivided Attention is produced by
the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us
on X: @HumaneTech_. You can find a full
transcript, key takeaways, and much more on
our Substack.

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