Commercial interests exploit a limited resource on an industrial scale: your attention | Oliver Burkeman

We’re supposedly free to ignore all the ways companies try to sell us stuff, but our brains don’t work like thatIf, like me, you can’t bear those little TV screens in the backs of taxis, just be grateful that you don’t live in Seoul (unless you live in Seoul). There, a few years back, bus passengers were exposed to an even more invasive form of advertising: each time the bus approached a branch of Dunkin’ Donuts, an “aromatizer” device sprayed the scent of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee i