How technology may be robbing you of more than just your attention | Tapestry with Mary Hynes | Live Radio

Technology is designed to grab your attention — but that's not all you end up paying, according to James Williams. He worked for Google for more than a decade before becoming an Oxford scholar. He is the author of Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy. And for the French philosopher Simone Weil, the act of paying attention was a moral imperative — so much so that some argue it cost her her life.

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