PBS - Hacking Your Mind (2020)

Jacob Ward sets out to discover we are not who we think we are. We imagine our conscious minds make most decisions, but in reality we go through much of our lives on “autopilot”. Marketers and social media companies rely on it. Hacking Your Mind offers you an autopilot owner's manual.

Ch1. Living on Auto-Pilot

Taking a trip around the world demonstrates how to go through life on auto-pilot; getting an auto-pilot owner's manual.

Ch2. Weapons of Influence

Politicians, social media companies and corporate marketers use big data to hack an auto-pilot decision-making system; defending oneself from hackers.

Ch3. Us vs Them

How auto-pilot biases fuel the nation's divisions and how to overcome them.

Ch4. The Wings of Angels

Why hacking for good is an important scientific discovery; how people can hack their own minds to improve their lives and change the world for the better.

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