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Designing Tomorrow is a newsletter by the Psychology of Technology Institute (PTI). PTI is a non-profit organization founded by Nathanael Fast and Juliana Schroeder in 2016. Its network of behavioral scientists, technology designers, and decision-makers seeks to protect and improve psychological health across society by advancing our understanding, design, and use of transformative technologies.
We focus on psychology because it is the core driver of individual and collective behavior; we focus on technology because it has powerful shaping effects on psychology, at both the individual and societal levels. To solve grand challenges such as climate change and pandemics we must first understand and improve the human-technology relationship.
To achieve our mission, we build new partnerships and conversations across the tech ecosystem in order to ask better questions, find answers more quickly, and spread insights more efficiently among scientists, tech designers, policymakers, and end users.
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We provide regular timely analyses of the latest research and news, leveraging our deep experience with both psychological research and building technology products. In a world where most of what AI systems are optimizing for are psychological in nature - affecting human behavior and well-being - our newsletter is a unique source of insight.
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