Adam Alter Quotes

#1. Addictive tech is part of the mainstream in a way that addictive substances never will be.

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#2. As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.

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#3. The Hannah study showed that people are suggestible, willing to view the world with the guidance of labels when faced with an otherwise unbreakable tie.

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#4. Vyacheslav and Marina chose a generic name designed to be devoid of meaning: BOHdVF260602. Although the name seems meaningless, BOHdVF260602 stands for "Biological Object Human descendant of the Voronins and Frolovas, born on June 26, 2002.

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#5. In 2000, Microsoft Canada reported that the average human had an attention span of twelve seconds; by 2013 that number had fallen to eight seconds. (According to Microsoft, a goldfish, by comparison, has an average attention span of nine seconds.)

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#6. They're distracting because they remind us of the world beyond the immediate conversation,

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#7. Both physical and social pain seem less painful when we're cushioned by symbolic reminders of money, even when the money isn't real or doesn't belong to us.

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#8. Each of us is an ongoing product of the world within us, the world between us, and the world around us - and their hidden capacity to shape our every thought, feeling, and behavior.

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