{"id":2376,"date":"2018-07-22T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2018-07-22T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T16:33:15","slug":"how-technology-is-hijacking-your-mind%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8afrom-a-former-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/how-technology-is-hijacking-your-mind%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8afrom-a-former-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind\u200a\u2014\u200afrom a Former Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/thrive-global\/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1600\/1*jv-w56ymDBTwsiqx7YdIdQ.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/thrive-global\/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3\">How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind\u200a\u2014\u200afrom a Former Insider<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"c4bf\" class=\"graf graf--blockquote graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\"><p>\u201cIt\u2019s easier to fool people than to convince them that they\u2019ve been fooled.\u201d\u200a\u2014\u200aUnknown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"5fc3\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--blockquote\">I\u2019m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That\u2019s 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\u2019s minds from getting hijacked.<\/p>\n<p id=\"a576\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">When using technology, we often focus <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">optimistically<\/em> on all the things it does for us. But I want to show you where it might do the opposite.<\/p>\n<p id=\"7936\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Where does technology exploit our minds\u2019 weaknesses<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p id=\"03f1\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">I learned to think this way when I was a magician. Magicians start by looking for <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and<\/em> <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">limits<\/em> of people\u2019s perception, so they can influence what people do without them even realizing it. Once you know how to push people\u2019s buttons, you can play them like a piano.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind\u200a\u2014\u200afrom a Former Insider \u201cIt\u2019s easier to fool people than to convince them that they\u2019ve been fooled.\u201d\u200a\u2014\u200aUnknown. I\u2019m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That\u2019s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/how-technology-is-hijacking-your-mind%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8afrom-a-former-insider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind\u200a\u2014\u200afrom a Former Insider<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,23,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}