The Trillion Dollar Battle For Your Attention, with Peter Schmidt and D. Graham Burnett

Welcome to Intelligence Squared where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. Our attention is under attack. A handful of powerful tech companies are extracting and monetizing our focus, reshaping our inner lives and threatening the foundations of democracy. Many proposed solutions rely on individual willpower.

power, but can we really outsmart supercomputers on our own? In this episode, we're joined by Peter Schmidt of the Strothor School of Radical Attention and Dee Graham Burnett, professor of the history of science at Princeton University. They are two of the authors of Attensity, a manifesto of the attention liberation movement. This book is written collectively by 25 academics, activists and artists known as the Friends of Attention, and all royalties from the book are donated to charity. In this episode, they speak with Connor Boyle, head of programming at Intelligence Squared, to explore the origins of the trillion dollar battle for our attention and how we might begin to reclaim our minds.

Let's join Connor now with more. Thank you both for joining us on Intelligence Squared today. I think the first question is maybe an obvious one, but an important one. What's the big issue that Intensity is trying to address? So yeah, thanks for having us on the show.

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