Simple things & windchimes.

Do we really live in a attention deficit world? While reading an article on The Economist about the impact of social media on democracy, I came across the idea of 'attention economy' and how it widens the political polarization by connecting you to people who share similar ideas and showing content that leads to a confirmation bias. It is rather scary how the algorithm that google and facebook uses, gathers so much information about its users. Any how this data contributes to your own political, ideological tunnel vision. The content you view and are repeatedly shown leads you away from alternate ideas and people who could potentially challenge the said ideologies. And you could easily become targets of bot generated fake news meant as confirmation of your own ideas, without the user knowing that the news is fake. While so many of us spend so much time on fb and google for information we need, there is little to nil transparency about the authenticity of content or the sou