William James
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Former Google advertising executive, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this "attention economy," we need to recognise the fundamental impacts of our new information...