Episode

What if we had fixed social media?

Podcast: Your Undivided Attention
Published: Nov 6, 2025
Duration seconds: 1014
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Summary

Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin imagine what a world with humane technology might look like—one where we recognized the harms of social media early and worked 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.