Placebo buttons

Sometimes control is just an illusion. Buttons and signs that tell us we have some control over our movement or environment are there just to make us feel good. They don't do anything. 

In this episode we'll tell you about those controls, what they do or don't do and why that is. Some of them have secret codes to make them actually work and we'll share those with you.

You'll also hear about some efforts to make those useless controls do something beneficial for you and society as a whole. It turns out, they can be good for something other than distracting you from what you really want.