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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