“They shaped nations, dictated economies, and engineered every facet of human distraction.”

They shaped nations, dictated economies, and engineered every facet of human distraction. Their web was vast and invisible, ensnaring the masses with a potent cocktail of internet pornography, religious dogma, bubble gum fads, gaming obsessions, surveilled messages, and a relentless drip-feed of digital entertainment. As long as people were absorbed—entranced—in their distractions, they remained docile...Obedient...Controlled. These were the men who monopolized the human attention span— builders of an infectious empire of influence.