Tag: attention

  • TED: We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

    TED: We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

    Platforms such as Facebook, Google and YouTube are persuasion architectures that even the engineers who created them do not know how the machine algorithms ultimately target audiences with content. These platforms show us content in our private screens targeted specially for us as individuals. They know what our weaknesses are and move us in subtle…