I avoided saying the words in my parent comment to try and minimize controversy, but if you're interested in learning more, what I describe is referred to as th

I avoided saying the words in my parent comment to try and minimize controversy, but if you're interested in learning more, what I describe is referred to as the "attention economy"[0]. The "information overload" problem has been known about for at least 40 years! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy