The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu

Book Overview

From the author of the award-winning The Master Switch, who coined the term net neutrality"--a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time.

Dazzling. --Financial Times

Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804170045
• ISBN13: 9780804170048
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 8.0"