The Pathologies of the Attention Economy
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist Herb Simon
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REDEF ORIGINAL: The Attention Economy Crisis: The Future of Content, Commerce and Culture
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... See moreThis rearrangement of social and economic conditions around the pursuit of attention is, I'm going to argue, a transformation as profound as the dawn of industrial capitalism and the creation of wage labor as the central form of human toil. Attention now exists as a commodity in the same way labor did in the early years of industrial capitalism.
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By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose extract
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the attention economy has grown, so has the attention deficit.