Attentional exploitation now reaches from legislators to young children at unprecedented scale

Evidence

The bad news is that the frackers have achieved a scope and scale of power that is nearly unprecedented in world history. Their chokehold extends from congresspeople to eleven-year-old children. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 444

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A generational shift from deep attention to hyper-attention is underway — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 46; Politics itself is being reshaped by attentional extraction industries; The surveillance horizon extends to children’s toys that harvest underage behavioral surplus — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 827

Broader Connections

• The surveillance horizon extends to children’s toys that harvest underage behavioral surplus #exemplifies (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 827
• Politics itself is being reshaped by attentional extraction industries #expands (0.78)
• A generational shift from deep attention to hyper-attention is underway #expands (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 46