Tag: attention

  • From Billboards to Big Tech: When Will We Draw the Line on Attention Theft?

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    In Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, commercial artists began putting up posters around the city advertising venues and shows and the like. It was so effective that soon posters were covering every surface of the city, leading to a concerted push by Parisians to regulate and rein in what had become visual…

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  • Screens Steal Connection

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    Never before in human life on the planet have more people had access to a wider array of diversions at each waking instant. And yet, we are increasingly stalked, as the King is, by the sense that it’s not enough. The more diversions available the more diversion we need, and the more intolerable we find…

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