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Re:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by eswat on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:16AM (#19806659)
Could go either way; distraction is the result but attention is the unit of value (now the meaning behind Basic Attention Token is clearer to me).
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Re:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by wewake on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:50AM (#19806838)
Yes, attention is a commodity with great value when accumulated in large numbers. Exponential in a way, I would say.
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