Attention Economy


Saturday, August 7, 2021

Online Distraction and the ‘Attention Economy’

At best, we’re on Earth for around 4,000 weeks – so why do we lose so much time to online distraction?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/07/on-earth-4000-weeks-so-why-lose-time-online-distraction-oliver-burkeman
“… distraction truly matters – because your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention. At the end of your life, looking back, whatever compelled your attention from moment to moment is simply what your life will have been. When you pay attention to something you don’t especially value, it’s not an exaggeration to say that you’re paying with your life”.