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Persuasive technology

The capacity for 'persuasive technology' to influence behaviour is only just becoming understood.

Credit: James Melaugh for the Observer

In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to unite us, but to distract us.

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