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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
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ISBN10: 0804170045
ISBN13: 9780804170048
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 19 2017
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780804170048
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 19 2017
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From the author of the award-winning The Master Switch, who coined the term net neutrality--a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time.
Dazzling. --Financial Times
Dazzling. --Financial Times
Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention. This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. Wu's narrative begins in the nineteenth century, when Benjamin Day discovered he could get rich selling newspapers for a penny. Since then, every new medium--from radio to television to Internet companies such as Google and Facebook--has attained commercial viability and immense riches by turning itself into an advertising platform. Since the early days, the basic business model of attention merchants has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your time, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser. Full of lively, unexpected storytelling and piercing insight, The Attention Merchants lays bare the true nature of a ubiquitous reality we can no longer afford to accept at face value.
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