The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads - Tim Wu
Category: Political
Narrator: Marc Cashman
Tags: Political, Self-help
From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch (a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term net neutrality - a revelatory, ambitious, and urgent account of how the capture and resale of human attention became the defining industry of our time., Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it., Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers., In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of messaging, advertising enticements, branding, sponsored social media, and other efforts to harvest our attention. Few moments or spaces of our day remain uncultivated by the attention merchants, contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a centurys growth and expansion i
