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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
... See moreFarrer argues that our collective attention is like a public pasture: It is valuable, it is limited, and it is being depleted. Everyone from advertisers to politicians to newspapers to social media giants wants our attention. The competition is fierce, and it has led to more sensationalism, more outrageous or infuriating content, more alg
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I put you in charge of the world, and you wanted to ruin people’s ability to pay attention, what would you do?
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
On vous vole votre attention !: Pourquoi vous ne pouvez plus rester concentré et comment y remédier (French Edition)
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How The Attention Economy is Devouring Gen Z | The Ezra Klein Show
youtu.beIn the shadowed agora of the digital age, a silent siege rages—a worldwide assault on the fragile currency of human attention. This is no mere distraction but a calculated plunder, where algorithms, honed by artificial intelligence, transmute fleeting glances into chains of escapism. AI, once a ... See more
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“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Simon’s insight is often reduced to “In a world of
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