The Attention Arms Race: Can AI Save Us From Contextless Content?

Today, the world boils down to just two things - data and people's attention. Will artificial intelligence rescue us from superfluous content?

Would it be an exaggeration to claim the world is now down to two things - data and attention? Writing my other newsletter earlier this week, I quoted a well-known American journalist as saying: “Once seen as individuals, today, we're primarily viewed as data in the digital realm”, or words to that effect. Is it true, her observation?

In March last year,…