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The Top 3 Books About the Attention Economy
1. Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet – Tim Hwang 2. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires – Tim Wu 3.
- Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet – Tim Hwang
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires – Tim Wu
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power – Shoshana Zuboff
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