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[M]any creators of digital platforms have studied psychology. Their goal has been to eat up more and more of our days. Through persuasive design, they've worked to manipulate human behavior. After all, the attention economy is wildly lucrative. Our attention is the currency; it's what we pay to use these platforms for free. It's also finite, so there's limited supply and great demand. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings once said his company's number one competitor was sleep. "And, we're winning!"
-- Brian Solis. "The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction" Scientific American Observations blog (August 8, 2019).
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