Sarah Harlow «2027»

By 2017, Sarah Harlow was the most requested speaker at tech conferences she refused to attend. Instead, she launched a newsletter called , which had no images, no tracking pixels, and arrived only on Thursdays. It reached 2 million subscribers within a year.

She studied Cognitive Science at Stanford, arriving in 2006 just as Facebook was opening to the public. She watched, horrified and fascinated, as her peers replaced eye contact with scrolling. Her senior thesis, “The Dopamine Loop: Intermittent Reward in Digital Architecture,” was largely ignored by her professors. They called it “alarmist.” The tech recruiters who read it called it a “blueprint.” sarah harlow

Her most recent project, Project Hermes , is an AI companion that does not talk. It listens. It tracks the interruptions in your speech during video calls and alerts you only when you have interrupted someone. "Empathy as a metric," she calls it. By 2017, Sarah Harlow was the most requested