Consciousness Hacking & VR: Immersive Tech’s Capacity to Drive Addictions or Transcend Compulsions
There is a growing backlash against technology being catalyzed by some of the architects of the persuasive habit-forming techniques. The Guardian does a survey of user experience designers and engineers who are taking drastic actions to curtail their personal technology addiction behaviors, and asking some deeper questions about the ethical responsibility of major companies in Silicon Valley to be socially-responsible guardians of the attention economy. Tristan Harris is one of these former persuasive designers who has formed a non-profit called Time Well Spent focused on gathering quantified data for how happy people are using different mobile apps, and Harris shared some data on Sam Harris’ podcast that people are happy with 1/3 of the time they’ve spent on the most popular apps, but that they’re unhappy with or regret how they’re spending 2/3 of their time.
See the full story and listen to the podcast here: http://www.virtualrealitypulse.com/edition/daily-amazon-htc-2017-11-16?open-article-id=7536429&article-title=consciousness-hacking---vr--immersive-tech-s-capacity-to-drive-addictions-or-transcend-compulsions&blog-domain=roadtovr.com&blog-title=road-to-vr