The civilization of the red fish

Publisher: The Arab Cultural Center Number of pages: 208 pages Translator: Dr. Mustafa Hijazi "This book is of great importance" - Dr. Mustafa Hijazi How do twenty-four hours of our lives look in our digital society? Hell of distraction: hundreds of messages, tweets, news, rumors, images, videos, notifications, and stimuli... Digital devices call us, snatch us, 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 subject to the control of algorithms and robots. The 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, lies a hidden project: it is the attention economy based on increasing the productivity of viewing time in order to extract more profit value. Let’s get out of our glass tank, say no to this new addiction and to the monitoring of our minds by major global companies, and learn how to confront it. Let’s regain control of our lives, our time, and our freedom. And let’s read this valuable book in its printed version, without a smartphone at hand!