Compulsive engagement

Brain hacking

Silicon Valley is engineering your phone, apps and social media to get you hooked.

"60 Minutes," the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast begun in 1968.

In this investigative report, "60 Minutes" goes behind the power of technology and how these devices are in fact weakening our relationships with each other.

Have you ever wondered if all those people you see staring intently at their smartphones - nearly everywhere, and at all times - are addicted to them? According to a former Google product manager you are about to hear from, Silicon Valley is engineering your phone, apps and social media to get you hooked.

As we first reported in April, he is one of the few tech insiders to publicly acknowledge that the companies responsible for programming your phones are working hard to get you and your family to feel the need to check in constantly. Some programmers call it "brain hacking" and the tech world would probably prefer you didn't hear about it. But Tristan Harris openly questions the long-term consequences of it all and we think it's worth putting down your phone to listen.