The HBS hosts focus their attention on… oh, look, a squirrel!
It is said that we are living in an attention economy, an age in which attention has become both a scarce resource and a source of wealth. Devices and apps do everything in their power to solicit our attention and keep us glued to our screens, turning minutes scrolling and clicks into revenue. Because of this demand on our attention, distraction has become an ongoing problem; from the road to the classroom we are worried that we are not truly paying attention. Is it time to pay attention to attention, to reflect on how we perceive what we perceive and why? What might it mean to reclaim our attention?
In this episode, we discuss the following ideas/thinkers/texts:
I Forced a Bot to Write this Book by Keaton Patti
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
Harry Potter (no link needed–it is that ubiquitous)
Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
Yves Citton’s The Ecology of Attention (You can also read Jason Read’s review of the book here)
Zeynep Tufekci’ Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest as well as her article “It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech.”
J.D. Vance and his tweet comparing New York City to the Walking Dead
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