The average Canadian teenager is on track to spend nearly a decade of their life staring at a smartphone, and that’s no accident, according to an industry insider who shared some time-sucking secrets of the app design trade.

CBC Marketplace travelled to Dopamine Labs, a startup in Venice, Calif., that uses artificial intelligence and neuroscience to help companies hook people with their apps.

Source: CBC News

Date: November 10th, 2017

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/marketplace-phones-1.4384876

Discussion

1) “It involves three steps: a trigger, an action and a reward. A push notification, such as a message that someone has commented on your Facebook photo, is a trigger; opening the app is the action; and the reward could be a “like” or a “share” of a message you posted.”  How might you change some apps that don’t do this to include this feature?

2) How can you protect your mind from being manipulated like this?