Is There a Link Between Technology and Attention?

The structure of how we receive, consume and process information now through both social media platforms and the media at large is contributing to this sort of disjointed feeling. Everything you do on these apps is scanned and sorted by their artificial intelligence algorithms to figure out who you are,. And they're learning that for a few reasons, partly because they want to target the advertising. If I'm selling diapers, if an appetizer is selling diapers, they want to know that you've got a baby like John has. But most importantly they'relearning that in order to figure out what would keep you scrolling. The longer you scroll, the more money they make. That's all it's about.