Now that scientists can manipulate dream content, advertisers want in
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The start of a harmful trend
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” - Jeff Hammerbacher, early Facebook employee. The number of quiet glens in life is decreasing. I was recently at the beach where I watched people in swimsuits search frantically for their phones in the sand. My conclusion was that there are certain modes of being that should remain untouched by the attention economy. Quiet glens should exist in your life where neither price, nor function, is primary. Market creep is a real thing, and you don’t transform into a flag-waving marxist when pointing out that…
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