Richard Sweeney: The Attention Cage, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

The Attention Cage: How Notifications and Algorithms Are Rewiring Humanity by Richard Sweeney is a blistering cultural manifesto that exposes the invisible prison of the digital age. We think we are free when we scroll, swipe, and stream. In reality, our attention has been stolen, fragmented, and sold. Notifications have hijacked our neurology, rewiring brains into dopamine loops. Algorithms have rewritten reality itself, trapping us in echo chambers and predictable loops. Together, they form a cage - one we carry in our pockets, mistake for convenience, and call "progress."In urgent, unflinching prose, Sweeney shows how this Attention Cage is erasing memory, collapsing critical thinking, and raising generations who no longer know silence, serendipity, or deep focus. From the dopamine drip of notifications to the echo chamber of personalized feeds, he maps the silent war being waged on our minds - and the dire consequences for families, education, democracy, and civilization. But this is not just a warning. The Attention Cage is a call to arms. It offers a blueprint for rebellion: reclaiming solitude, rebuilding focus, and rediscovering the chaos of serendipity that keeps human imagination alive. The key to the cage is in our hands - but only if we have the courage to use it.