Chapter Ten. The Attention Machine.
Information, Surveillance, and Concentrated Power
The information environment shapes what people believe, and artificial intelligence is the
most powerful tool ever built for shaping it. That's a technical fact
with deep political consequences.
In 1938, a theater director named Orson Welles broadcast a radio
adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds across the CBS
network. The broadcast was presented as a series of live news bulletins
interrupte