Reporting can be a scary job. I have had nervous moments with warlords, gangsters and neo-Nazis. I have been shot at and threatened. Once, long ago, I had to endure, without displaying any outward sign of panic, the whole of Tonight’s the Night, the Rod Stewart musical. But if Tristan Harris is right about what he is telling me, then the presentation playing now on his phone is the most frightening thing I’ve seen in my life.
It’s a road map for the erosion of civilisation as we know it.
Harris, 35, is a former Google insider who has been called “the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience” and a “Silicon Valley apostate”.
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Harris believes that we are in the midst of