Godel course · Human Thought + Society

The Attention Economy, Rebuilt

A self-paced course for understanding attention as a cognitive capacity, an economic resource, and a political question.

10 modules · work at your own pace Self-paced · interactive

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Lesson index

Ten lessons

Attention is the scarce resource

How attention became an economy

The engineered interruption

The feed and the self

Attention, truth, and shared reality

AI makes content cheap

Does AI extend thought or weaken it?

Attention, intimacy, and artificial companionship

Who should govern attention?

Design an attention regime