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by gregw2
482 days ago
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I seem to remember in the ?late 90s? Intel execs talking about how their market's growth opportunity was all about capturing eyeballs (attention). Eyeballs, eyeballs, eyeballs. At the time I thought it was a weird way of talking about internet media growth at the expense of TV, but it seems more revealingly predatory (of not just Intel but the entire industry) in hindsight. I've tried to find old videos of execs talking on stages about this to fit my memories but I can't seem to find them. Does anyone else remember what I'm talking about? |
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https://www.eetimes.com/infighting-is-enemy-in-war-for-eyeba...
The language of "war for eyeballs" in the wake of social media's success at weaponized attention/floe is revealing and distasteful in the same way as Coke's internal discussions of trying to maximize "stomach share".
That said, the addictive nature of the web was there early on even before it was commercialized. I distinctly remember a CS grad student warning me in 1993 that there was this new graphical web thing, but it was pretty addictive... So I ignored it for an additional semester before I got sucked in...