Sunday, July 15, 2018

Dystopia Made Real

The Tech Industry’s War on Kids: How psychology is being used as a weapon against children

Please read the whole thing as I'm hearing stories like this at work more often.

Here's a sample:
These parents have no idea that lurking behind their kids’ screens and phones are a multitude of psychologists, neuroscientists, and social science experts who use their knowledge of psychological vulnerabilities to devise products that capture kids’ attention for the sake of industry profit. What these parents and most of the world have yet to grasp is that psychology — a discipline that we associate with healing — is now being used as a weapon against children.