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Interrupted and distracted: Johann Hari wants you to regain your attention

Life Examined

CHAPTER

Are You Anti-Tec or Protec?

Big tech wants us to think about this debate. Is arou protec or are you anti tec? And when you hear that, you like, we'll i'm not goig to give up my laptop. I'm not going ogive up my phone. That is not the debate. But if you took out your phone right now and you start scrolling, those companies begin to make money out of you in two ways. The first way is really obvious. Everyone knows about advertising. The second way is much more important. Everything you do is scanned and sorted by their artificial intelligence algorithms to figure out who you are. They are gathering tens of thousands of details about you. Now partly

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