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THE CASSANDRA OF THE ATTENTION ECONOMY

This is different — it has nothing to do with past lives per se. But since past life journeying is all about expanding consciousness, it is worthy to consider how our consciousness is being contracted rather than expanded by our increasing internet usage, and the way we’ve allowed the internet to influence our consciousness. Michael Goldhaber predicted the internet would destroy our ability to focus by rewiring our brains way back in the mid-1980’s. He coined the term “attention economy” to refer to the way we “spend” the finite resource of our attention, and how in 2021 it evolved into “a world in which everyone is desperately seeking their own audience and fracturing reality in the process.” Sound familiar? Reframe the concept of the attention economy by substituting the word “consciousness” for “attention” and consider how we’ve allowed our connected devices to rewire our consciousness economy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html?referringSource=articleShare