Technology can alter our physiological states in very surprising ways. One of the principles of human technology is actually find and strengthen existing human brilliance with regard to a human value we're trying to fulfil. For example, let's say you are trying to build humane technology that increases my daily sense of unconditional love and delight in the world. How would we do that? You can imagine a computer notifications, or the computer points a camera at my face, and it sees what my micro expressions are,. i says, oh my god, he's not happy. Let's start like dosing him with puppy photos till his micro expressions start squinching in a way that go up to full facial smile. Now
When you’re gripped by anxiety, fear, grief or dread, how do you escape? It can happen in the span of a few breaths, according to meditation experts Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. They have helped thousands of people find their way out of a mental loop, by moving deeper into it. It's a journey inward that reveals an important lesson for the architects of the attention economy: you cannot begin to build humane technology for billions of users, until you pay careful attention to the course of your own wayward thoughts.