PositiveThe Washington PostWhile Wu describes the dynamics within journalism, advertising, television and Internet services that brought us to this moment, he struggles to offer a path for us to take back our minds and souls. The book shies away from the prescriptive ... Those hoping to find policy and political answers to the overwhelming commercialism of civic and cultural life in America won’t find them here. Wu’s primary task in this book, however, was to write an engaging history of the attention economy, and he has succeeded in that.
