The Era of Attention Economy and Its Destructive Impact: Reasoning by Examples

Written by maddykutechno | Published 2021/04/19
Tech Story Tags: mindfulness | digital-mindfulness | attention-economy | social-media | technology | infinite-scrolling | hackernoon-top-story | faagm

TLDR We are reaching peak saturation of digital media and social engineering as everyone is forced to compete for everyone’s attention. We are in a self-reinforcing ad-tech driven attention economy that is becoming unsustainable and questionable, however more and more invasive as digital transformation continues its ruthless march at an accelerated pace. Every decision we make is critical in terms of where we choose to focus our attention on, especially today. We are now doing literally everything online and conducting all affairs online. Companies such as Social Media Giants in particular are making billions of dollars trying to get to the bottom of our brain stems and distract us constantly.via the TL;DR App

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Written by maddykutechno | Futurist | Technologist | Web 3.0 Blogger
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/04/19