When there’s innovation every few days, how do we know if a new technology is likely to serve humanity well?

We’ve thought about that a lot at CHT over the years, and we’ve come up with some principles that you can apply to many different products and situations, even novel ones.

This talk covers 8 key questions that put these principles into practice:

1) Does the product help humanity in this pivotal moment?
2) Where will prevailing systemic forces naturally take the product?
3) Does the product have a clear definition of thriving, and does it help users thrive?
4) What values does the product claim to center, what does it actually optimize for?
5) How do economic forces affect products, and how can product teams reduce harmful effects?
6) Does the product respect or harmfully exploit human nature?
7) Does the product enable shared understanding, information processing, and collaboration?
8) Who is being left behind, and how can we do better?

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