Listen "277: How Social Media Affects our Brains, Minds.com CEO Bill Ottman"
Episode Synopsis
Chris Spangle looks into the effect of social media and smartphones on our brain. Spangle then speaks to Minds.com CEO and co-founder Bill Ottman. Minds.com is a free-speech platform that seeks to cure the problems of the major social platforms. The episode ends with "How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day" by Tristan Harris and Quit social media by Dr. Cal Newport.
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia:
Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention -
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia?CMP=share_btn_tw
Mark Zuckerberg Is Calling for Regulation of Social Media To Lock in Facebook's Position - https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/22/the-real-reason-mark-zuckerberg-calling
"How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day" by Tristan Harris - https://youtu.be/C74amJRp730
Quit social media by Dr. Cal Newport - https://youtu.be/3E7hkPZ-HTk
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'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia:
Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention -
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia?CMP=share_btn_tw
Mark Zuckerberg Is Calling for Regulation of Social Media To Lock in Facebook's Position - https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/22/the-real-reason-mark-zuckerberg-calling
"How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day" by Tristan Harris - https://youtu.be/C74amJRp730
Quit social media by Dr. Cal Newport - https://youtu.be/3E7hkPZ-HTk
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