“If you can access a service for free, or for a remarkably low price, you yourself might be the product.” That line, in an article called “Should the Tech Giants Reprogram Capitalism?” by Nicholas Barrett of The Economist, sent a chill down my spine.
Our physical bodies are not products, of course (thankfully). Our online activities are the product. Tech companies sell information about us to advertisers. By enabling those advertisers to pitch their products to us on sites that they know we frequent, tech companies sell our attention spans.
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