The civilization of the red fish

What do twenty-four hours of our lives look like in our digital society? Hell of distraction: hundreds of messages, tweets, news, rumors, photos, videos, notifications, and stimuli... digital devices call us, snatch us away, possess us, take us hostage, and turn us into prisoners of the screen for hours of the day. We have become red fish, those foolish creatures that circle endlessly in their glass tank, emptied of our being, unable to wait or focus, exposed, drowning in the ocean of social media and the internet, and under the control of algorithms and robots. Economic empires have created a new kind of slavery, with relentless insistence, and at the heart of this digital system, and in the heart of our daily lives, a hidden project: it is the attention economy based on increasing the productivity of viewing time to extract more profit value. Let us leave our glass tank and say no to this new addiction and to the monitoring of our minds by major global companies, and learn how to confront it. Let us regain control of our lives, our time, and our freedom. And let us read this valuable book in its paper version, without a smartphone at hand!