Twentieth-century attention research served machine-monitoring practical ends.

Evidence

That last question gives away the game. Because it is a deep and important fact that the vast majority of the research done on “human attention” in the twentieth century was tightly tied to very practical problems concerning the stimulus-and-response capacities of human subjects sitting in front of machines. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 129

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which specific military/industrial procurement programs (radar, sonar) actually funded this research lineage? Worth tracing the funding trail.