Bangladesh, July 22 -- We often imagine ourselves as masters of our screens, clicking with intent and scrolling with curiosity.
But if we observe the machinery behind the pixels, a different story emerges: we are not the explorers of this digital landscape; we are the extracted resources.
Just as the industrial age harvested coal and oil, the digital age harvests the one resource that is truly finite: human attention.
This reality has turned our digital consumption from a tool of empowerment into a medium of subtle subjugation.
Modern digital platforms are designed with a singular purpose: to capture and hold human attention. Through algorithmic curation, these platforms limit our intellectual horizon.
We are fed a diet of oversimplifi...