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    Revolution, at your fingertips

    Oct 10, 2018 3 minutes

    WORDS / DANIELLE KIRK

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    An idea has been regaining traction of late: the design of technology with humans in mind. This, of course, has been the promise of technological developments from the wheel to the plough to the solar panel — to support, not suppress, humanity. And yet not all inventions help the human race function more optimally. Think guns. Think automated supermarket checkouts. Think Candy Crush.

    The locus of this particular paradigm shift has been Silicon Valley, where a man named Tristan Harris has

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