6min 39sec @theRSA clip - The #Attention #Economy is not on your side - this industrial scale #persuasion - with James Williams

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"In May this year, James Williams, a former Google employee and doctoral candidate researching design ethics at Oxford University, won the inaugural US$100,000 Nine Dots Prize. James argues that digital technologies privilege our impulses over our intentions, and are gradually diminishing our ability to engage with the issues we most care about.