Hwang, Tim. Subprime Attention Crisis. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020. Kindle.

For an incredible book-length treatment of how these dynamics work, see: Andrew Marantz, Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (New York: Penguin, 2019). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 62

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (New York: PublicAffairs, 2018), 9. Kindle Edition. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE

Herbert A. Simon, “Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World,” in Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest, ed. Martin Greenberger (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971), 40–41. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE

Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2017), 12. Kindle Edition. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 7 Wu, The Attention

Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, “Loneliness and Social Connections,” Our World in Data, December 10, 2019, accessed September 24, 2024, https://ourworldindata.org/social-connections-and-loneliness. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE

John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Persuasion (New York: Classic House, 2009), 197. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 18

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (New York: HarperCollins, 2015), 10. Kindle Edition. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 22

Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity, Authorama, www.authorama.com/book/free-culture.html.