What if we had fixed social media?
Your Undivided Attention
2025/11/06
What if we had fixed social media?
What if we had fixed social media?

Your Undivided Attention
2025/11/06
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Shownote
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We really enjoyed hearing all of your questions for our annual Ask Us Anything
episode. There was one question that kept coming up: what might a different
world look like? The broken incentives behind social media, and now AI, have
done so much damage to our society, but what is the alternative? How can we
blaze a different path?
In this episode, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin set out to answer those questions
by imagining what a world with humane technology might look like—one where we
recognized the harms of social media early and embarked on a whole of society
effort to fix them.
This alternative history serves to show that there are narrow pathways to a
better future, if we have the imagination and the courage to make them a
reality.
Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology
[https://www.humanetech.com/]. Follow us on X: @HumaneTech_
[https://twitter.com/humanetech_]. You can find a full transcript, key
takeaways, and much more on our Substack
[https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/].
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