> ...We are slaves to a system we didn’t create.
> ...I don’t know how much of this is a technology problem versus a people problem, but what I do feel is that something needs to change.
> I don’t know if Big Tech will ever change. I think we will continue to see these empires rise. We will continue to see the likes of OpenAI and others fight for our attention. But it’s our attention, and we can take it back.
As the attention economy rolls on, a theme I'm noticing pop up more often is that some folks seem to be uncomfortable with the choices others make.
If we're talking about adults, these adults have the choice to engage in social media and other things that consume attention. Just like folks are allowed to eat however much legally obtained food that they want.
What are we going to do, tell Americans how much TV they can watch, books they can read, or little screens they can look at?
We've been "wasting" time for a long time. There's nothing new here. It's just a higher magnitude of the same concept.
Americans want to look a little screens.
Big tech in this sense is just giving the people what they want.