A lot of us might feel that tech is a net win, even with all the addiction and privacy concerns, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't always try to do better. Tha

A lot of us might feel that tech is a net win, even with all the addiction and privacy concerns, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't always try to do better. That's what tech is all about. Tech isn't like "real life", we can change things without major effort and disruption. Constant improvement is normal in tech. Dopamine might be natural and healthy, but the problem isn't that we are excited about the next episode of a show. The problem is that we scroll 30 second YouTube shorts that we aren't excited about. Endless scrolling is a real problem. It's basically made for disposable content. The way FB is designed makes everything ephemeral unlike older forums. I am perfectly fine with 99% of tech. I like the fact that I no longer have to use paper notebooks. I like that a phone, laptop, and e-reader can replace about half the functional items people used to have. I don't even mind being tracked everywhere I go. I've been helped out plenty of times in random situations by looking through the records of everywhere I go that Tile, the bus system, and Google have of me. But clickbait is close to straight up false advertising. It's counterfeit entertainment, more addictive but less enjoyable than regular media. And it's absolutely everywhere, taking up time and resources that could be better spent on a million other things. If there's a problem, we should fix it. It's not like we couldn't change Facebook. It's not like environmental issues where everything is connected and production comes with pollution. Tech is mostly holonomic and we could get rid of a lot of the super addictive elements without much change. Just fire the behavior engineers or whatever they're called and get normal UI people to design what consumers actually want.