The Crisis of the Attention Economy Fri, July 24 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — In the modern digital landscape, human focus has become the ultimate commodity, harvested and monetized by platforms designed to prioritize commercial engagement over cognitive well-being. With the explosion of generative artificial intelligence, the marginal cost of producing content has dropped to near zero, flooding digital feeds with low-quality, automated “AI slop”. In…
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