Almost a year earlier, on April 12, 2016, I had attended a small dinner in San Francisco organized by Tristan Harris, Google’s former Design Ethicist, who would go on to found the Center for Humane Technology. Over dinner with Dave Morin (Facebook’s former Head of Platform), Chris Messina (the inventor of the hashtag), and a small handful of others, Tristan laid out his early understanding of how social networks were stealing control of people’s t…
