In 1997, Michael H. Goldhaber penned in Wired magazine, “the currency of the New Economy won’t be money, but attention – A radical theory of value” [1].
The article was titled Attention Shoppers!
Almost exactly a decade after Goldhaber’s “radical theory” on the attention economy, the first iPhone would enter the market, giving tech companies unprecedented access to human psychology and radically transforming the fabrics of society as we know it.
Another decade after the first iPhone made its way into the pockets of eager consumers, Tristan Harris, a former Google product developer and the the co‑founder of Centre for Humane Technology, called the iPhone “a slot machine in my pocket.”
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