Attention Economy
exploring the inner workings and dynamics of companies building products engineered to hook us, addict us, and hijack our attention to sell more ad inventory
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Attention Economy
“Specificially, pursuit of novelty creates “luck”, and curiosity is the emotional manifestation of novelty. If we’re more open to what attracts our attention, we’ll get a lot luckier.”
Paul Millerdtwitter.com
REDEF ORIGINAL: The Attention Economy Crisis: The Future of Content, Commerce and Culture
Joe Marcheseredef.com
Opinion | How the $500 Billion Attention Industry Really Works
nytimes.comTo optimize for viral growth, today’s social platforms are designed to feature entertainers and sensationalized content in a one-to-many fashion to generate more ad impressions... this is inducing divisiveness and reducing human interaction to just tapping on a like button.