This is, as the title says, quite possibly the single most important article you could read today, if not the most important article you could read all year. Its ramifications touch several, many and huge parts of our current lives, of the future, of our government, of technology and of even our Democracy. Everyone should read about and be more familiar with the "attention economy."
For anyone and everyone who is amazed at how many of us are staring down at our phones so much of our lives and/or for anyone and everyone stunned at how we got this President--again, there are many, many possible consequences here.
Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Whether you realize it or not, you are very likely participating in it and at least affected by it if not also deeply affected.
With thanks to friend Paul Shanks for bringing it to my attention.
Here's hoping we're wise and strong enough to be masters of the technologies we create.
