We Built the Internet Around Attention - That Was the Wrong Primitive

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/we-built-the-internet-around-attention-that-was-the-wrong-primitive. Somewhere in the evolution of the internet, we made one architectural decision that eventually shaped almost everything that came after it. Check more stories related to media at: https://hackernoon.com/c/media. You can also check exclusive content about #internet, #future-of-internet, #history-of-the-internet, #future-of-tech, #humans-and-technology, #human-attention, #ai, #future-of-humanity, and more. This story was written by: @myrtleology. Learn more about this writer by checking @myrtleology's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Human attention became a success metric. Clicks became relevance. Time spent became value. Engagement became interest. More became better.