How Tristan Harris engages the audiece
Part of your exam question asks you to focus on how Tristan Harris engages the audience in his talk “How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day”. We have already discussed some of Harris’ strategies in the previous sections, but we will summarize the main ideas in this section.
Shared experiences
Harris engages the audience by talking about shared experiences. He suggests that all people are in this situation together, and that the solution to their problems must come through collaboration: “So how do we fix this? We need to make three radical changes to technology and to our society. The first is we need to acknowledge that we are persuadable” (ll. 66-67). In this example, Harris convinces the audience that change shou...