A Different Kind of Streaking

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

With former Google designer Tristan Harris, who explains how far Silicon Valley will go to capture and control your eyeballs. And Snapchat artist CyreneQ, who makes her living drawing on her phone all day. For real.

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For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but Note to Self will be back before you know it with some changes and surprises.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Manouche, the host of Note To Self, the show that looks at how technology is
0:05.3	changing our everyday lives.
0:07.9	Watch this space for new episodes coming soon, but right now you are about to hear one
0:12.3	of our most favorite episodes ever.
0:15.4	If you're hearing it for the first time, enjoy.
0:17.9	If you've heard it before, it might sound different with all the recent headlines about
0:23.3	privacy, data, and democracy.
0:25.9	There's a lot shifting right now.
0:28.3	Meanwhile, if you want to discuss further or just be in touch, you can always reach me
0:33.0	at Manouche Z, M-A-N-O-U-S-H-Z on Twitter or at Manouche Z dot com.
0:40.0	For now, thanks for listening.
0:50.0	What happens when a tech company designs a nap that makes absolutely no sense to half the
0:55.4	population and triggers intense, some might say, compulsive behaviors in the other half.
1:02.7	I'll tell you what happens.
1:04.5	That company grows to be worth over $20 billion.
1:12.1	It's Note To Self, the tech show about being human.
1:14.8	I'm Manouche Zomerodi, this week, Snapchat and technologies that hijack our minds, how
1:23.1	they work and how they're changing the way that we talk to each other.
1:28.0	Sometimes for good, sometimes for bad, and sometimes for very strange.
1:36.7	So let's start this episode with how Snapchat actually works.
1:41.6	For those of you who are completely clueless and don't worry, you are not alone.
1:46.1	If you want to see it again, you hold down and you replay it.
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