The Sirens' Call - How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

This centrality of information, and specifically the ability to compute and process large amounts of it, came partly as an inheritance from the information age’s antecedents in the code-breaking work of World War II–era surveillance. After years in the literal wilderness, they suddenly were forced to deal with many aspects of life under twenty-first-century global capitalism. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination.