2017: What is "Brain Hacking"? Tech insiders on why you should care 

Who else is watching on their phone?

My teacher was just having me watch this for class, and wow. I have super bad anxiety constantly and i always knew some of it was because of my phone, but i had no idea just how much. Won't give up my phone right now, but might download one of those apps. Tech companies shouldn't be messing with brains. Like i get that we'll never know the answers if they don't run those tests to see how our phone addictions hinder our health and life, but man, knowing my constant anxiety could hugely be in part because of my phone.... Getting rid of it could solve so many problems. Much thanks to these guys and my teacher for showing this to me.

You can call it brain hacking ... But In plain English... I have one word this is called - "Manipulation"

For those who are trying to Google, his name is Tristan Harris. Amazing how they can't simply show or say his full name...

Im glad i grew up without a smartphone during my childhood and school years, im from the last generation before the smartphone era started. My first phone was a Nokia with an small antenna that i got when i was around 10 i think in year 2000-2001. :)

...wearing corporate logos is branding... branding is what ranchers do to cattle to prove ownership... they brand the animal. ...you pay extra for name brands, then produce free advertising- are you worth more than this? Are you?

Doesn't all media try to hold the attention of their consumers?

It's called 'self-control' peeps - Google it. Oh, wait...

Damn RU-vid and documentaries 😭 they got me ya'll! Other social media - I could care less about!

Being addicted to your phone is like being addicted to cigarettes. You have to break the cycle!

These tactics are not new. Hasn’t anyone been to Vegas? Played a slot machine? This science isn’t new, it’s been around for many many decades.

Turn off the phone notifications

I bought a smartwatch and the moment I did I put my phone down. There's no social media on it but if there's any notification that I will need to see, such as a txt message, it goes to my wrist. My phone sits in a caddy waiting for a call. I check my phone for the weather a couple of times a day, I add coffee to my caffeine app and that's all.

It works for me when I treat my Phone as what it is a mobile computer. So shut it down when you don’t need it, put notifications on silent.

I removed all social media apps on my phone.. but RU-vid is the hardest 😭

Not sure why this is in the playlist "Elon Musk: The 2018 60 Minutes Interview".

6:48 the guy's hoodie says "don't trust anyone" in Russian

Black Mirror stuff!

Applications on a phone which you are referring to, things that people love, like, and need, to in essence keep them pre occupied: such as being mentally happy, which doesn't include physical aspirations after a workout sweat

I've read about this topic in reference to video games. I can see how the same concepts apply.

Only thing I am addicted to is RU-vid because cable SUCKS!

I watched this on a smartphone back in the 90s I would have watched this on TV. The smartphone brain hack, is no worse than the TV brain hack.

1) Do you think our social bonds are at a breaking point because of an influx of electronics? 2) Do you think the pervasiveness of technology has lead to increased isolation? 3) How? Technology had and has a devastating effect on the survival and functioning of core social units, such as the community/neighborhood and, most crucially, the family.With the introduction of modern, fast transportation and telecommunications, it was no longer possible to confine the members of the family to the household, to the village, or even to the neighborhood. The industrial and, later information revolutions splintered the classical family and scattered its members as they outsourced the family's functions (such as feeding, education, and entertainment). This process is on-going: interactions with the outside world are being minimized. People conduct their lives more and more indoors. They communicate with others (their biological original family included) via telecommunications devices and the internet. They spend most of their time, work and create in the cyber-world. Their true (really, only) home is their website or page on the social network du jour. Their only reliably permanent address is their e-mail address. Their enduring albeit ersatz friendships are with co-chatters. They work from home, flexibly and independently of others. They customize their cultural consumption using 500 channel televisions based on video on demand technology. Hermetic and mutually exclusive universes will be the end result of this process. People will be linked by very few common experiences within the framework of virtual communities. They will haul their world with them as they move about. The miniaturization of storage devices will permit them to carry whole libraries of data and entertainment in their suitcase or backpack or pocket. They will no longer need or resort to physical interactions. Why is it important for humans to ʽreach out and touch fellow human beings? Modern technology allows us to reach out, but rarely to truly touch. It substitutes kaleidoscopic, brief, and shallow interactions for long, meaningful and relationships. Our abilities to empathize and to collaborate with each other are like muscles: they require frequent exercise. Gradually, we are being denied the opportunity to flex them and, thus, we empathize less; we collaborate more fitfully and inefficiently; we act more narcissistically and antisocially. Functioning society is rendered atomized and anomic by technology.

I neglected getting smart phones for many years for this very reason. I loved my old Nokia, because it was purely functional. This summer I switched to a smart phone because it just became too inconvenient to not have access to the Internet and certain apps when virtually everyone expects you to. I still refuse to use any social media on the phone, including RU-vid. And I've spent a fair amount of time trying to configure my notifications to be as close to functional as possible. Even with that, it still bothers me a lot more than the Nokia, so I've found I often leave it places because I hate its effects on me, where as I kept my Nokia on me all the time with no issue.

I decided not to bring my phone to certain places or turn it off at certain times. Cause it is scary to see others addicted with it.

Cooper😂 am actually using my phone to watch! So I can’t keep it down 😂😂

Not only silicone value programming people))). Hollywood, Bible, Schools, advertising. Every "media", artificial art, medium between human and experience of real life.

if it jumps that much for a text just imagine the response to phone calls....my heart rate goes crazy

very bad stay away from the phone if you can

dude i just hope these handful of people got as much information as possible about everything so maybe a handful of people can shape humanity with all things considered

The fight for our attention didn’t start with smartphones. TV, radio, ads, books, people have been trying to figure out how to influence people long time ago. Ever heard of marketing? This is just another example of demonization of technology. It’s not the tech companies, it’s us, we want technology in our lives so if you want to fix something start by fixing human nature :)

My grandchildren dont care about the stupid phones. They would rather go fishing. People are like sheep.

"User experience... Something they call engagement" All of this is under the ideas that people are "aware" of what they are doing and that they have choice. Both of those aren't true so "user experience" is not really "user experience"

Putting down my phone? Well Anderson I'm actually watching this on my phone.

in the last video this reporter said his phone was next to his right ankle,and I was wondering if he's trying to get cancer from the RF radiation, and to tell him to just suitcase it. That's the quick way, to get er done. thanks again, Wonka, out of Luv y'all...

they started easy showing ads after you thought about them, when people noticed they went easy and then they totally gave themselves up when they used it on the trucker guy from miami

I always find it ironic when an older person tells me "you kids and your damn phones, you kids and your video games, you kids and your text messaging" when they themselves have a Facebook or more than one social media outlet. Technology literally has everyone and the parents hooked.

This is so obvious in FB Messenger where they don't let you change the new message ding. They're training us like dogs

We are born Prisoners into this matrix of flesh and tech; Wake from your slumber; The Many forms of prisons was built on this plane by spiritual beings, gods if you will... Meant to keep us and our spiritual senses dull and numb. Meant to keep you focused only on the inside, on the inside of our egos; never looking up to see that the 🌎 isn't spinning; never looking up to see that the stars aren't terrestrial planes; dumbed and numbed down; Keeping us away from anything truthful, duping our senses till we are senseless; They created Mental viruses, hacked into our biosphere's our brainframes; seeded spyware that has been sutured and sewn throughout our mental cloud; crafted biological apps that infuse mental naps, so we can coast through our cyber worship with our screensaviour. The master programmer became a user of the matrix himself and plugged himself into it, to come down And free us from the prisons created for our minds. Speaking in cyber terms there's a new patch being sent out before the new update. No patch, no update no update, no running on the new firmware. Wake from your slumber. It's deeper than tech. Jesus is the Master programmer and the creator of this matrix. Remove the flesh and see the rest.

The mind has no firewall.

Rofl at apple for changing there mind about allowing the app access to appstore. At first they probably brushed that guy off then realized they'd be getting quoted on 60min

@8:31: "ADDICTION CODE" Good name for a 2020 punk band to emerge from the depths of despair.

If i put my phone down to listen. I cant watch this video soooo !!!???!?!? :-P

Intermittent classical conditioning with positive reinforcement.

January 2019. Still not using a smartphone. Tired of seeing people ignoring their surroundings and each other in favor of tiny screens. The younger generation will have zero situational awareness or sense of direction.

I’m using my phone to watch this lol

Amazing interview👏🏻❤️

I've had to stop talking to people because of how obsessed they became with streaks on Snapchat. To the point where I received 15 messages from them at midnight about how I ruined the streak and I didn't know what they were talking about

Just curiously,how could Anderson cooper would be employee by CNN and CBS at the same time?

12:33 Look at the phone!

Attention is 1 thing controlling a person's brain, a person who knows what you like is no different than a person who offers a kid ice cream or an overwhelming smell of popcorn at a movie, you still hafe to choose,

Just curiously,how could Anderson cooper would employee by CNN and CBS at the same time?

We ALL know what this about. "Control".

Yul Brenner in Westworld comes to mind

Wow you mean to say smartphones designed specifically to entertain humans are entertaining humans... shocking

We just need a EMP to happen, Reset everyone so that they can they can breath and look at the beauty of the "real" world surrounding them.

Wow. I keep my phone on silent. Sometimes I lose it. Once I have a boyfriend Facebook will be deleted. However, I have thought there was something fishy going on.

The way my life is set up I work 11 12 hrs a day.. so I don't have the time to post or check fb frequently, so I just don't. Fb is the only platform I have. The only thing that releases dopamine in my brain is MONEY!!!!

I love 60 min, because it's a educational commentary show.

Thanks

I saw, clicked it, saw cooper....clicked next video without even listening.

As soon as I heard Anderson Coopers phone "Ding" because he got an alert, it jolted my awareness, I became more alert and it literally made me think my phone recieved a message!... This may not be new info about the tech industry and how they write codes but it is unfortunately true and can be damaging if the person allows it... 😐

In order to get companies to stop doing this, You’d essentially need to get rid of dog eat dog Capitalism. So...

Pass a law. Step 1 - Trivial notifications must be opted into. Step 2 - tax notifications.

I remember this story

I see honey in a tree and get a desire for it, return to it each season to get it, like an addict. I feel a dopamine rush when I finally land a steelhead and the variability in reward timing, keeps me coming back and encourages me to spend money on fishing. I see sun and the inside of me feels the exuberance of warmth. I am trained to become restless at my desk and want to go into the sun. Learning online has me hooked. I am addicted to new information from science journals and more. I feel the happy. Are we suppose to ignore all dopamine rewards? Who decides which is good and which is bad? My honey habit gets me stung, into nettle and eating sugar. Mother nature is hacking my brain?

TV messaging also stimulates our senses to focus in on our body and trigger pain memories so that you will see doctors and buy pills.

Save your children!

Why is Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes?

As I watch this on my phone.. got caught in the RU-vid vortex.

Wait until they actually put brain chips in people and do this crap then your going to a party 🤣🤣🤣

If anyone still uses their phone for anything other than the occasional news update or phone call...then they either do not care, or they are just dumb.

Thanks for Sharing 💖

"TECHNOLOGY IS NOT NEUTRAL" @2:39

Cute cover story for ACTUAL MINDRAPE.

Yeah but don’t you need these chemicals to flow regularly anyway that’s why we have them and nothing else in our environment stimulates them so easily

This interview was not hella edited at all...

If u busy u won't care about being on ur phone all the time. It is a good and a bad thing

Real word jolly

On another video they had something called Alexa voice sniffer where they could listen and send commercial ads

1:58 ehh idk about that also 6:54 its just like that because it would be annoying to get notified for every like , overthinking tad .

This is not brain hacking, I'll teach you what modern day brain hacking is

As i am wacthin this my fire wall is goin up and brain waves being hacked.

Did Yuval Harari coin the phrase "BRAIN HACKING"?

Way to use this exposure to market an app.

Well I used to watch tv. Couldnt afford cable, so now I watch my phone.

Is it the phone or the internet? Because it's the same for laptops.

Anybody react to the text ping in this video?

Yep

Amazing video.

I came to this video when i googled US6506148B2 and "Dr. Hendricus G. Loos"

Its funny how so many people and experts are warning us about internet and tech addictions but they use internet and techs

Casino owners need to see this.

When figuring out a few things about how reality is rigged whether it goes for or against what I want I don’t care about my time spent on Twitter or YT. I don’t carry a phone. I hardly ever check my at home phone & don’t have a downloaded version on my iPad. Nothing to do with electromagnetic pollution.

I can't be outdoors and look at my phone because as soon as i put it away I get hit with major anxiety. It feels I go from one world ( the phone ) to another world ( reality ; being outdoors ). Technology is rewiring our brains and not in a good way..... Even Steve jobs didn't allow his children to use iPad's. What does that tell you?

I took FB off of my iPhone. I was spending too much time on SM.

That's why I turn my notifications off lol. I check them when i feel like it

Harris use the attention your attracting and also make a book ... if you already haven’t

It’s no longer just through phones, it is directly in the brain. Why don’t you report it?

No one programing no one. We have free will. If you are hooked to your phone get of it or shut up.