We already have Godlike technology or we are already gods. We might as well get good at it. So if we're geoengineering towards catastrophe, we might as wellGet conscious about our geoengineering and not do the self-destructive thing and see ourselves away from climate change. The idea there buys in to the idea of individual responsibility because it assumes that you need full information in order to occupy your full agency. And also what in this particular example, and I think for some of these technologies as well, the assumption is that we're just giving people what they want - which is a false premise.
In part two of our interview with cultural anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll, author of Addiction by Design, we learn what gamblers are really after a lot of the time — it’s not money. And it’s the same thing we’re looking for when we mindlessly open up Facebook or Twitter. How can we design products so that we’re not taking advantage of these universal urges and vulnerabilities but using them to help us? Tristan, Aza and Natasha explore ways we could shift our thinking about making and using technology.