
Beyond technology critique, Smith's philosophical journey reveals the internet's ancient roots in nature itself. Praised in Kirkus Reviews' Best Books, this warning connects digital networks to tree communication and sperm whale "wifi" - challenging everything we thought we knew about our connected world.
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A startling fact: the world's most valuable companies no longer mine oil or manufacture cars-they harvest human attention. Meta, Google, and TikTok have built trillion-dollar empires on something far more intimate than natural resources: the fleeting focus of billions of users. We've become what one might call "data-cows," valuable not for our labor but for the endless stream of information we produce about our identities, behaviors, and desires. Every click, scroll, and pause becomes a data point more valuable than traditional commodities ever were. This extraction operates through a peculiar alchemy-appealing to passion rather than reason, triggering dopamine-fueled responses that keep us scrolling long after we intended to stop. The result? A widespread "crisis of attention" where the average person switches tasks every 40 seconds and checks their phone hundreds of times daily. We've entered an era of "affective condensation," where our passions, frustrations, and responsibilities concentrate into a single glowing rectangle. Most disturbingly, the boundary between advertisement and content has dissolved entirely. Unlike newspapers that couldn't monitor their readers, today's platforms read us as we read them, making every interaction a potential marketing opportunity. Success increasingly means presenting yourself as an attention-grabbing brand, with personal identity becoming inseparable from marketable content.
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