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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Technology
Wu traces the history of industries built on capturing and reselling human attention, from cheap newspapers and radio through Google and Facebook. Harari values it as essential context for the present-day battle over human attention, a theme central to his own warnings about information technology and politics.
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Yuval Noah Harari
“A very insightful book that surveys the history of modern information technology and its political implications, from the age of print and radio to the era of Google and Facebook. It gives the context of the current battle to control human attention.”
Named in Harari's '5 books Yuval Noah Harari wants you to read' feature, The Jakarta Post, July 2018. Quote confirmed verbatim.
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