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The 35-year-old doctoral candidate researching design ethics at Oxford University, has been announced as the inaugural winner of the $100,000 Nine Dots Prize. post
His entry Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Persuasion in the Attention Economy argues that digital technologies are making all forms of politics worth having impossible as they privilege our impulses over our intentions and are âdesigned to exploit our psychological vulnerabilities in order to direct us toward goals that may or may not align with our ownâ. He covers:
How the âdistractionsâ produced by digital technologies are much more profound than minor âannoyancesâ
How so-called âpersuasiveâ design is undermining the human will and âmilitating against the possibility of all forms of self-determinationâ
How beginning to âassert and defend our freedom of attentionâ is an urgent moral and political task
See Fogg of War for more about persuasive technology and Time Well Spent.