{"id":59184,"date":"2017-04-20T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59184"},"modified":"2017-04-20T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T22:23:27","slug":"60-minutes-silicon-valley-programmers-are-engineering-your-phone-and-its-apps-to-make-you-as-addicted-to-them-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59184","title":{"rendered":"(60 Minutes) Silicon Valley programmers are engineering your phone and its apps to make you as addicted to them as possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That phone in your pocket is like a slot machine. Every time you check it, you\u2019re pulling the lever to see if you get a reward.   <\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s how former Google product manager Tristan Harris sees it. This week on 60 Minutes, he tells correspondent Anderson Cooper that Silicon Valley programmers are engineering your phone and its apps to make you check them more and more.<\/p>\n<p>Take Snapchat. It\u2019s the app that teens rank as \u201cmost important social network,\u201d according to a Piper Jaffray report, and it\u2019s keeping teens hooked by design. Snapchat\u2019s \u201cstreaks\u201d feature shows the number of days in a row that two people have traded photos, and the anxiety of breaking a streak is real.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hooked-on-phones\/\">Read or watch it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That phone in your pocket is like a slot machine. Every time you check it, you\u2019re pulling the lever to see if you get a reward. At least that\u2019s how former Google product manager Tristan Harris sees it. This week<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59184\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59187,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59184\/revisions\/59187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}