Max Stossel, Humanizing Technology
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today we launch a brand-new series all about our digital health. During the pandemic, our need to be connected - even digitally - is at an all-time high, but at what cost? Are we using tech to escape? Is it making us more or less socially aware? Are our phones listening to us?
To answer all of those questions, and more, Jessica spends time with Max Stossel. Max is the Head of Education for the Center for Humane Technology, an organization of former tech insiders and CEOs dedicated to realigning technology with humanity’s best interests. What Max reveals in this conversation may surprise you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone welcome back to the going scared podcast this is your host |
| 0:04.6 | Jessica Honegger founder of the social impact fashion brand noon day collection |
| 0:09.3 | join me here every week for conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome to our new series on Digital Health. |
| 0:21.6 | Just in time for the summer, right in the middle of COVID-19. |
| 0:27.2 | Digital Health is an area of constant growth for me. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm constantly asking myself questions. When am I using technology for |
| 0:34.5 | connection and for good? When am I using it to numb and to escape? What are |
| 0:39.8 | healthy tech habits? And how do I teach those habits to my kids? These are the |
| 0:44.8 | questions that led to this new four-part series launching today and to start it all |
| 0:50.6 | off I wanted us to hear from a tech insider. |
| 0:54.8 | Max Dawson is the head of education |
| 0:57.1 | for the Center for Humane Technology. |
| 1:00.1 | Okay, that is a kind of fancy term for an organization, but I first learned about the founder of |
| 1:06.2 | the Center for Humane Technology when I watched a 60 Minutes episode a couple of years ago. |
| 1:12.1 | It was founded by Tristan Harris when he was a design |
| 1:16.8 | ethicist at Google and he observed the large-scale negative impacts of |
| 1:21.4 | attention-grab grabbing business models. |
| 1:24.0 | As a tech insider, both Max and Tristan |
| 1:28.0 | witness how apps are created to be addictive. |
| 1:32.0 | These insiders even describe the places where these |
| 1:36.1 | social apps are created as dopamine labs. They say that the companies that |
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