Mammouth Café
#attentioneconomy
Ev Williams' open letter (regarding advertising-based social media, and how he intends to use Medium to fix it etc.,etc.,..), republished by the New York Times.
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https://static01.nyt.com/files/2018/business/Ev_Williams_Document.pdf
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(BY THE WAY: it's a .pdf, NOT a Word document. Despite the title of the .pdf document.)
Contemporary social media is broken.
The Attention-economy model is what messes with your brain. The system incentivizes for what attracts the most attention, not for what is most beneficial for the poster and/or society in general.
Snackable content. Brain junk food. We rot.
/ #AttentionEconomy #MediaCriticism #MassMedia #Advertising #AdvertisingSupportedMedia / #fz_thinkingOutLoud
The #AttentionEconomy is a fool's game, for the nature of attention is fickle & banal.
John Danaher: The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction
"...perhaps it is time that we recognised a right to attentional protection? In other words, a right to do with our attention as we please, and a corresponding duty to protect our attentional ecosphere from intrusions that are captivating, but ultimately shallow and unfulfilling...."
You will have, if you're lucky, 500,000 conscious hours in this Universe: 85 years, 2/3 spent awake.
How much of that time can you devote to others?
2 people: 250k hours each.
20: 25k
200: 2.5k
2,000: 250
20,000: 25 -- just over a day.
200k: 2.5
2 million: 15 minutes. Andy Warhol's truism is Small World only.
20 m: 1.5 minutes
200 m: 9 seconds
2 billion: 0.9 seconds
8 billion: 0.225 seconds
If someone devotes a quarter second to you, you're getting more than your share.
You will have, if you're lucky, 500,000 conscious hours in this Universe: 85 years, 2/3 spent awake.
How much of that time can you devote to others?
2 people: 250k hours each.
20: 25k
200: 2.5k
2,000: 250
20,000: 25 -- just over a day.
200k: 2.5
2 million: 15 minutes. Andy Warhol's truism is Small World only.
20 m: 1.5 minutes
200 m: 9 seconds
2 billion: 0.9 seconds
8 billion: 0.225 seconds
If someone devotes a quarter second to you, you're getting more than your share.