Question: is attention a proprietary effect? WHO DOES OUR ATTENTION BELONG TO IN THE FIRST PLACE? The answer: 'Our' attention is OURS. And if appropriated without our permission, it is effectively stolen, by thieves. That, in turn, gives one cause to claim on advertisers, et al ... at least for the return of our attention. Popularise that idea, James, and we may begin to make real change. Hence we float the notion of the biggest class action suit in history, that will stop the Attention Economy dead in its tracks. The argument that we choose where to direct our attention is addressed as follows: Advertisers compel us. By their own admission. They award and applaud themselves for doing so. Hence choice is negated. Furthermore, as James points out -- either here or elsewhere -- technology is not a tool, it is a pervasive environment. (Thanks for that one, sir. Most useful in this effort.) To everyone: the attention is a priceless commodity. Sell it if you like. Just don't give it away! Rather get it back.
I love the way you just LOVE the idea of addiction to internet technology. Thanks. I also assume the only reason for the attention economy is to make corporations rich rather than increase our wealth health life chances and whatnot.
Perpetual state of learning. Right... I've tried to solve this by determining fundamental truths and making decisions based on those. Not sure it's working that well
I feel like I have to put a gun to someone's head for them to listen at all. People around me are happily sucked into the internet and justify ignoring their children and partners for their computers. It sucks.
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Interesting, demonstrates why life is so fast now (we are in a perpetual state of learning and nothing is enough) any way out of this? I personalty find myself reading tons of material aimlessly just out of curiously everyday !
Great talk but isn't it ironic that Williams is using technology during his speech to display Powerpoint images and distract us from his pitch. More and more I wonder about why we have to add these images to our presentations, and how much they distract us from saying more profound things (the time it takes to build these slides is actually worrying in itself). At the end of the day, that too is the economy of distraction.
You make an interesting point but I don't think it is necessarily ironic that he uses technology to discuss the harm technology can/is doing to us. James says at some point that the attention economy does the opposite of what technology should be doing for us, that technology should instead be helping us towards our own goals and not the goals of whatever media is trying to grab our attention. So in this case I'd say he is utilizing technology in the way it was made for, to help people. Also, I don't think adding visuals to a presentation promotes distractions. If anything, because we are so conditioned by various forms of media to have short attention spans, it is beneficial to have visual aids while someone is verbally presenting the information. I for one am a very visual learner and having images/videos accompany a speaker really helps me to better obtain the information.
Question: is attention a proprietary effect? WHO DOES OUR ATTENTION BELONG TO IN THE FIRST PLACE? The answer: 'Our' attention is OURS. And if appropriated without our permission, it is effectively stolen, by thieves. That, in turn, gives one cause to claim on advertisers, et al ... at least for the return of our attention. Popularise that idea, James, and we may begin to make real change. Hence we float the notion of the biggest class action suit in history, that will stop the Attention Economy dead in its tracks. The argument that we choose where to direct our attention is addressed as follows: Advertisers compel us. By their own admission. They award and applaud themselves for doing so. Hence choice is negated. Furthermore, as James points out -- either here or elsewhere -- technology is not a tool, it is a pervasive environment. (Thanks for that one, sir. Most useful in this effort.) To everyone: the attention is a priceless commodity. Sell it if you like. Just don't give it away! Rather get it back.
This is an excellent video, thank you
I love the way you just LOVE the idea of addiction to internet technology. Thanks. I also assume the only reason for the attention economy is to make corporations rich rather than increase our wealth health life chances and whatnot.
Perpetual state of learning. Right... I've tried to solve this by determining fundamental truths and making decisions based on those. Not sure it's working that well
Is there a longer, non-audio only version of this somewhere ?
I can't seem to find it, only the soundcloud one (thanks to a previous commenter)
I feel like I have to put a gun to someone's head for them to listen at all. People around me are happily sucked into the internet and justify ignoring their children and partners for their computers. It sucks.
Just cut off their internet connection....then they shall put their gun on your head.
With gun pointed at each other you shall have a game at hand.
Is there a way to see the entire thing?
You can listen to the full talk here:
soundcloud.com/the_rsa/are-digital-technologies-making-politics-impossible
This was 6 years ago?😮
You had my attention.
thanks
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Interesting, demonstrates why life is so fast now (we are in a perpetual state of learning and nothing is enough) any way out of this? I personalty find myself reading tons of material aimlessly just out of curiously everyday !
The simpler and easier it becomes to communicate the quality of that communication only ever decreases.
Great talk but isn't it ironic that Williams is using technology during his speech to display Powerpoint images and distract us from his pitch. More and more I wonder about why we have to add these images to our presentations, and how much they distract us from saying more profound things (the time it takes to build these slides is actually worrying in itself). At the end of the day, that too is the economy of distraction.
You make an interesting point but I don't think it is necessarily ironic that he uses technology to discuss the harm technology can/is doing to us. James says at some point that the attention economy does the opposite of what technology should be doing for us, that technology should instead be helping us towards our own goals and not the goals of whatever media is trying to grab our attention. So in this case I'd say he is utilizing technology in the way it was made for, to help people. Also, I don't think adding visuals to a presentation promotes distractions. If anything, because we are so conditioned by various forms of media to have short attention spans, it is beneficial to have visual aids while someone is verbally presenting the information. I for one am a very visual learner and having images/videos accompany a speaker really helps me to better obtain the information.
He’s selling a political platform; that we need to take back our attention
It is the same old problem, ADVERTISING !
tl;d... ⌚