The Attention Merchants
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1 min readMay 10, 2020
Advertisements and marketing are so ubiquitous in today’s culture that we don’t even think about how it started. Tim Wu writes about the origins of advertising and the “attention industry” in The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. The sketch note below is inspired by the first chapter from Wu’s book and sheds light on the mindless consumption of advertisements today.