Automated Influence

The War of Words: The Invisible Logic of Political Language and Automated Influence 1 The War of Words - Part 1: The Invisible Logic of Political Language 2 The War of Words - Part 2: The Tyranny of the Narrating Self 3 The War of Words - Part 3: The STEPPS of Automated Influence ← Series Home The Scarcest Resource: Commodifying Attention and Volition Attention is the most fiercely contested resource in the modern age, continually harvested at industrial scale and converted into profit. This ongoing appropriation transforms every waking moment into a zone of potential commercial exploitation, ensuring that few times or spaces remain uncultivated by those seeking to resell human awareness. To successfully colonize this most personal of resources, influence professionals have developed precise, scalable methods for spreading ideas and modifying behavior, shifting their focus from broad persuasion to targeted, automated coercion that operates just beyond the threshold of conscious thought. ...