Opinion

Shanghaied by the attention engineers {Millennial Musings}

Caitlin Walker

RBC | Have you ever heard of attention engineers?

They are technological geniuses hired by big tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter whose sole purpose is to get you to spend as much time as humanly possible using their product.

As the adage goes, nothing is really free. We pay to use social media with our time, our search history, and our personal information, and we pay big. The average person swipes…