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#71 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Attention Economy Is Saturating

As the attention economy saturates, what do you do? You have to ratchet up how persuasive you are. If people don't find it so annoying that they're going to stop using YouTube, there's no way they'll stop using YouTube. So of course not. The web and all of these tools will continue to evolve to be more engaging and to take more time because that is the business model.

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