The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads Condition:Good But Japan has always been

But Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined

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The production of such animations on the basis of up-to-the-minute data is already common practice in select TV programs

Even the President himself becomes a suspect

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads Condition:Good But Japan has always beenFrom Tim Wu, author of the award winning The Master Switch and who coined the term "net neutrality," a revelatory, ambitious, and urgent account of how the capture and resale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of messaging, advertising enticements, branding, sponsored social media, and