The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –
COULTERVILLE, Calif. – If people knew how much value grabbing and holding their attention held for media outlets, social media platforms, corporate advertisers and politicians of all stripes, would it make a difference in how people spend their time and money?
Maybe. Maybe not.
But at least some people might spend less time on social media listening and watching and more of their time interacting in person with friends and family, maybe working together to solve problems, and they would be more healthy psychologically and physically as a result. We would also be more healthy and democratic as a state, a country and a society.
Do people even have the time or the attention span to realize they need to spend time on such abstract concepts? Or has that been lost too? This is going to matter even more as the Age of Artificial Intelligence crashes like a tidal wave over us. It’s coming ashore as we speak. You can almost see it on the horizon from here. It’s going to create one hell of a super storm, especially on the economic front.
READ the full column here in the New American Journal.