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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
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This means that under competition, the race will naturally run to the bottom; attention will almost invariably gravitate to the more garish, lurid, outrageous alternative, whatever stimulus may more likely engage what cognitive scientists ...more
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