Industrial attention research served military, advertising, and factory needs only

Evidence

The human frackers are exploiting one very particular kind of attention, one that comes out of a century-old system of laboratory research, which studied attention for specific and narrow purposes (i.e., military performance, advertising, factory productivity). But there is much more to human attention than that. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 120

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what counts as the frackable kind of attention: the narrow lab-measured kind.