Can I have your attention, please?

Professor Graham Burnett would like it, too. Graham is an historian of tech and science… and through his research has become so passionate about reclaiming our attention from the grip of tech giants that he has started a new movement. Alongside some colleagues, friends, artists, activists and other researchers… they set up Friends of Attention.

Graham and his team are working to change how we view what attention means to us, to resist the corporate forces that have turned it into a lucrative commodity, and to fight back against what he calls the fracking of humans.

Who are these people? What are they trying to do? Is their resistance futile… or even desirable? On my Times Radio show recently, I met the attention activists.

Listen here….