Tristan Harris Biography
Tristan Harris is a computer scientist and businessperson from the United States serving as the president and a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. He previously worked as a design ethicist at Google.
How old is Tristan Harris? – Age
Harris is 36 years old as of 1985 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Tristan Harris Family
He was raised by a single mother in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Tristan Harris Education
He studied computer science at Stanford University while working at Apple Inc., then took a master’s degree at Stanford, where he took a B class. J. Fogg, who runs the Convincing Science Center; Harris was not a part of the lab, even though he appeared to be in the Social problem. Harris researched the science of behavioral modification. Tristan was a classmate of one of Instagram’s creators, Kevin Systrom, and helped develop a demo version with the other founder, Mike Krieger. In 2007, Harris dropped out of the Stanford Master’s program.
Tristan Harris Wife
He has not revealed his marital status to the public. It is not known if he is married, single, or divorced.
Tristan Harris Ted talks
Harris’ work was featured on TED, “60 Minutes,” HBO’s “RealTime with Bill Maher,” “PBS NewsHour,” Recode, The Atlantic, WIRED, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Economist, and many more. Harris briefed the heads of state, technology company chief executives, and members of the US Congress on the economy’s attention.
Tristan Harris Career
Harris hoped to rally support for an alternative based on core principles for tech companies, whose leader is helping us invest our time well instead of seeking more. Harris believes that all human brains can be hijacked and that the decisions they make are not as free as they believe they are. The Atlantic reported in its November 2016 issue that “Harris is the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience.”
At the Center, Harris has been a strong supporter of acknowledging and mitigating the harmful effects of emerging technology. In 2017, Anderson Cooper spoke on 60 Minutes about the “brain hacking” of mobile games, compared them to the addictiveness of the slot machine. In a 2019 presentation in San Francisco, he coined the term “human downgrading” to explain the intertwined web of mutually reinforcing harm—addiction, diversion, alienation, polarization, false news—that weakens human potential, induced by technology networks with an extractive business model that captures human interest. Harris’ most influential advocacy to date has been used in the film The Social problem, released by Netflix.
What is Tristan Harris Net worth?
His net worth is estimated to be between $2 and $5 million.
Why did Tristan Harris leave Google?
He founded a company named Apture, which focused on delivering instant email to Tristan’s inbox. Google bought Apture from Harris in 2011 and wound up operating on Google Inbox. At Google, Harris wrote “A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users’ Attention” and shared the presentation with a couple of his colleagues in February 2013. In that presentation, Harris suggested that Google, Apple, and Facebook should “feel an enormous responsibility” to ensure that society doesn’t waste its days lost in a smartphone.
The 141-slide deck was ultimately seen by tens of thousands of Google workers and prompted discussions about the organization’s obligations even after it left the company. Harris owns a number of patents from his prior work at Apple, Wikia, Apture, and Google. Harris left Google in December 2015 to co-found a 501(c)3 non-profit group named Time Well Spent, now called the Centre for Human Technology.
Tristan Harris Books
♦ 2018 – Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
♦ 2012 – The Righteous Mind
♦ 1993 – The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
♦ 1992 – Technopoly
♦ 1986 – Finite and Infinite Games
♦ 1985 – Amusing Ourselves to Death
♦ 1980 – Metaphors We Live By
