Digital Minimalism

“digital technologies transform how we live”
: Elliot Schrage,
“Introducing Hard Questions,” Newsroom, Facebook, June 15, 2017,
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/hard-questions
.
“Society often welcomes the benefit”
: Rob Sherman, “Hard Questions:
Should I Be Afraid of Face Recognition Technology?,” Newsroom, Facebook,
December 19, 2017, 
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-
questions-should-i-be-afraid-of-face-recognition-technology
.
“a lot of smart people”
: Ginsberg and Burke, “Spending Time on Social.”

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“According to the research”
: Ginsberg and Burke, “Spending Time on
Social.”
the “attention economy” describes the business sector
: On
“attention economy,” see Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic
Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016).
beginning of this economic model to 1830
: Tim Wu, “The Battle for
Our Attention,” October 25, 2016, Shorenstein Center, Harvard University,
transcript highlights and Soundcloud audio, 1:04:04,
https://shorensteincenter.org/tim-wu
.
“He was the first person”
: Wu, “Battle for Our Attention.”
The most expensive internet company at the time was eBay
: Alex
Wilhelm, “A Look Back in IPO: Google, the Profit Machine,” TechCrunch,
July 31, 2017, 
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/a-look-back-in-ipo-
google-the-profit-machine
.
Google is the second most valuable company in the United States
:
“U.S. Commerce—Stock Market Capitalization of the 50 Largest American
Companies,” iWeblists, accessed January 31, 2018,
http://www.iweblists.com/us/commerce/MarketCapitalization.html
.