Conversation

Esther Dyson talks about the "attention economy", not just about our desire to control where we put our attention, but about others' desire to get our (or anyone's) attention, as a form of immortality and not just to make money.

And that's what advertisers are stealing from my kids: their immortality. And they're paying fractions of pennies for it. I fear this could be much worse with millenials, who have perhaps grown up thinking their attention is worthless.