What if we had fixed social media?

2025-11-06 · 17 min · 18 entities

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We really enjoyed hearing all of your questions for our annual Ask Us Anything episode. There was one question that kept coming up: what might a different world look like? The broken incentives behind social media, and now AI, have done so much damage to our society, but what is the alternative? How can we blaze a different path? In this episode, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin set out to answer those questions by imagining what a world with humane technology might look like—one where we recognized the harms of social media early and embarked on a whole of society effort to fix them. This alternative history serves to show that there are narrow pathways to a better future, if we have the imagination and the courage to make them a reality. Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology . Follow us on X: @HumaneTech_ . You can find a full transcript, key takeaways, and much more on our Substack . RECOMMENDED MEDIA Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke The Anxious Generation by Jon Haidt More information on Donella Meadows Further reading on the Kids Online Safety Act Further reading on the lawsuit filed by state AGs against Meta RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang Jonathan Haidt On How to Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis AI Is Moving Fast. We Need Laws that Will Too. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.