Digital Jiminy Crickets

In many cases, good-behavior technology gets the job done by bolstering resolve with digital willpower. By tweaking our responses with alluring and repulsive information, while also shielding us from distracting and demoralizing data, digital willpower helps us better control and redirect destructive urges. Apps like ToneCheck prevent us from sending off hotheaded emails, while GymPact inspires us to go the gym. Students are getting into the act, too, and developing apps to make their classmates more responsible, e.g., get to class on time and be less distracted. Arianna Huffington's project ?GPS for the soul? promises to analyze a user?s stress levels and provide overwhelmed people with rebalancing stimuli, like ?music, or poetry, or breathing exercises, or photos of a person or place you love.? We?re already willing to delegate self-control to technology?and future developments will likely give devices even more ethical decision-making power.

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