Attention Machines and Future Politics Highlight

Not only is novel behavior becoming scarce, but it is also becoming financially valuable — as both a target of extraction (it provides novel data!) and as the primary differentiator among human participants in massively automated economic environments. So, a machine-readable form of agency — novel behavioral patterns — is already being targeted for extractive harvesting, much like attention has been; the actual human capacity, meanwhile, is already being coveted and hoarded as the key personal quality by the billionaire class and others (this is already happening).