1KHO 115: Who Decides What's in Humanity's Best Interest? | Maria Bridge, Center for Humane Technology COO

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Chief Operating Officer, Maria Bridge from the Center for Humane Technology joins us to talk about the fascinating field of technology ethics and what we can do about the negative effects of technology, many of which are preventable. Maria walks us through the walks in which certain platforms attempt to manipulate our behavior, what we can do about those attempts, and things to be aware of as we move forward into new technologies. There's lots to learn in this one that will help us guide ourselves and our children in a world that at times may start to feel like an invisible prison. The Center for Humane Technology has incredible resources to help us navigate these changing times. Learn more about the Center for Humane Technology here >> https://www.humanetech.com/ Check out their Your Undivided Attention Podcast that has sixty episodes and over 15 million downloads. Watch The Social Dilemma Documentary that has already reached an estimated 100 million people since its debut in September 2020 and is streaming in 190 countries in 30 languages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Urich and you're in for a treat today.
0:06.5	Maria Bridge from the Center for Humane Technology is here. Welcome! Thank you. Welcome. Thanks for having me. So Maria, we kind of
0:16.5	in searching you out for a while. I have talked to this man, Dr Nicholas
0:21.6	Carderas, twice over the past year. He has written two books.
0:26.1	One of them is glow kids and that's about screen addiction and sort of highlighting back when people really didn't know it was back before the
0:35.3	social dilemma he talks about how it wasn't quite accepted then that screens could
0:40.2	have these harmful effects so he wrote that book for parents so that they could, they knew.
0:45.2	He's like parents knew, but then they would go and people would say no it's not a thing and so he was kind of
0:49.7	of clearing that up and then very recently he wrote a follow-up book called Digital Madness
0:54.0	where the point is if we know that these screens are causing issues what should be
0:58.6	our response and in that conversation he brought up the Center for Humane Technology and this question of ethics,
1:05.0	which I had never in my life thought about.
1:07.5	And so for a while then we've been trying to track your company down and so this is a total throw for me to be able to have you on.
1:15.0	So can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
1:17.3	I know you've had this path.
1:18.9	I mean you are the CEO at the Center for Humane Technology,
1:21.8	even they've worked all sorts of other places.
1:23.7	So tell us about you.
1:25.0	Yeah, happy to share.
1:26.4	Hopefully it's useful.
1:27.8	So I did not start my career in the nonprofit world,
1:30.6	which is where I am now.
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