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BJ Fogg [1] is someone who could have contributed to our recent "Things you built and regret" thread. His "Persuasive Computers" paper gets blamed (for example by Tristan Harris) for the explosion of attention economics. That's perhaps unfair as his Tiny Habits work seemed geared toward wellbeing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Fogg

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Fogg was pretty early in identifying some of the risks, although at the time (late 90s) I don't believe he took them seriously. One of the earliest critics from inside the industry, that I can find, was Joe Kraus, a partner at Google Ventures. You can watch his 2012 (I think) talk at https://vimeo.com/240721308

ETA Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Nicholas Carr, 2008