Smartphone screens monopolize attention formation toward a single engineered kind

Evidence

The attention frackers have monopolized the once-sacrosanct business of attention formation, and they have done it by dominating, with oodles of money and unimaginable computing power, a deck-of-cards-sized patch of space approximately eight inches from your face. This results in a population that is systematically overeducated to one very specific kind of attention. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 201

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pins down the physical locus of human fracking: the pocket-sized screen eight inches from the face.
• XREF: connects to: Today’s attention choices shape the devices that will condition tomorrow’s attention — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 533; Attention and technology co-evolve through reciprocal causation — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 534; The war technostructure outsourced demand creation to the attention industry — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 150 (+5 more)