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Vanity Fair correspondent Nick Bilton discusses the dark underbelly of Silicon Valley: how the tech industry creates products designed to addict, why former tech leaders wont let their own children use their products, and the growing technologist-to-Luddite pipeline.
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The people who built addictive technology are the most aggressive in protecting their own families from it
Roll and Bilton discuss the hypocrisy: tech executives send their children to Waldorf schools (no screens), limit device usage at home, and privately acknowledge that their products are designed to be addictive.•
The technologist-to-Luddite pipeline: the people most skeptical of technology are those who understand it best
Bilton observes a pattern: the deeper someones technical expertise, the more skeptical they become of technology's effects on human well-being. The most radical tech critics are former tech insiders.Was this useful?