Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals x Logic)

Unfortunately, advertising has been ingrained into the internet as the basic model for so long and to such an extent that it’s hard to envision online life without the systematic manipulation of attention and all its evils. So we’re bound to wind up here, at the bitter end of “content.” Which is a good excuse to withdraw deeper into books, movies,

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Our attention is not only hijacked from the inside. Many of the most irresistible assaults on our ability to focus our minds come from the world around us. Billions of dollars are spent on advertising designed to persuade us that our lives lack something essential, and to captivate our minds with the one special product that can fill that lack. Soc

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