Karen’s Reviews > Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again > Status Update

The liberation of human attention may be the defining moral and political struggle of our time. Its success is the prerequisite for the success of virtually all other struggles.

Leaked Facebook internal report: “Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,” and if left unchecked, the site would continue to pump its users with “ more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention and increase time on the platform.”

We now live in a world dominated by technologies based on B. F. Skinner’s vision of how the human mind works. His insight – that you can train living creatures to desperately crave arbitrary rewards – has come to dominate our environment.