Hooked on Smartphones: What Gamblers and Social Media Users Are Really After [Part 2]

In part two of our interview with cultural anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll, author of Addiction by Design, we learn what gamblers are really after a lot of the time — it’s not money. And it’s the same thing we’re looking for when we mindlessly open up Facebook or Twitter.

How can we design products so that we’re not taking advantage of these universal urges and vulnerabilities but using them to help us? Tristan, Aza, and Natasha explore ways we could shift our thinking about making and using technology.

Listen to Part 1 of the interview here: https://youtu.be/SuwafUaIvY0

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This is "Episode 2: Should've Stayed in Vegas" from Your Undivided Attention, the podcast from the Center for Humane Technology — a non-profit organization working to catalyze a humane future. View a transcript of this episode here: https://humanetech.com/podcast/2-shouldve-stayed-in-vegas

The Center for Humane Technology also helped bring you The Social Dilemma, the Netflix documentary that chronicles the existential threats posed by social media. Help us turn the massive momentum of the film into lasting change: https://humanetech.com/the-social-dilemma

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Tristan Harris TED talk: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C74amJRp730

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