A FEW years ago, in a supermarket, I swiped my bank card to pay for groceries. I watched the little screen, waiting for its prompts. During the intervals between swiping my card, confirming the amount and entering my PIN, I was shown advertisements. Clearly some genius had realized that a person in this situation is a captive audience.

Attention is a resource; a person has only so much of it. And yet we’ve auctioned off more and more of our public space to private commercial interests, with their constant demands on us to look at the products on display or simply absorb some bit of corporate messaging. Lately, our self-appointed disrupters have opened up a new frontier of capitalism, complete with its own frontier ethic: to boldly dig up and monetize every bit of private head space by appropriating our collective attention. In the process, we’ve sacrificed silence — the condition of not being addressed. And just as clean air makes it possible to breathe, silence makes it possible to think.

What if we saw attention in the same way that we saw air or water, as a valuable resource that we hold in common? Perhaps, if we could envision an “attentional commons,” then we could figure out how to protect it.

Quand on paye avec la CB, on a un petit moment d'attente avant d'avoir le prompt du code, le temps que la communication se fasse avec les banques.
Aux USA, certains établissements profitent de ce temps, pendant lequel notre attention est importante, pour afficher de la publicité.
Du coup il est difficile d'échapper à cette pub obligatoire maintenant affichée en couleurs sur les terminaux de paiement récents.
J'imagine qu'il s'agit ici d'un temps de cerveau disponible très rentable et ils ont toutes les billes pour rendre les publicités plus pertinentes en analysant nos habitudes de consommation. Oui, on peut imaginer que la liste de course est communiquée aux serveurs de pubs.

Est-ce que dans le futur on va tous porter des lunettes bloqueuses de pub? https://jeekajoo.eu/links/?CQOa6A
Ou bien sera-t-on trop lobotomisés pour enfin se dire que tout cela est normal ?