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Why we can't pay attention anymore
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is There a Downward Spirale?
In the seventies, there began to be movements of ordinary citizens. It was mostly mothers saying, look, is really damaging our children's brains. And what i learned is there's a comparable element in social media that we can deal with through regulation. We need to just say that a business model premised upon discovering the weaknesses in your attention in order to hack them and sell them to the highest bidder,. it's fundamentally immoral and inhuman, like leaded paint or gasoline. But let's imagine we do that. What would happen if they move to a different business model? The next day when i open facebook? Does it just say, sorry, guys, we've gone fishing? Of
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