We finally have the numbers on what distraction costs. They are worse than the pessimists guessed. A look at what a decade of interruption research says about the true price of the attention economy, paid in switching costs nobody bills for.
Entire cities now exist twice, once in concrete and once in code. The copies are starting to disagree.
Cloud seeding, solar geoengineering, and the coming property disputes of the sky.
The optimization of everything has made us worse at the one thing that matters: paying attention. A confession from inside the cult of systems.