What has every major technological advancement throughout history really given us?

From the wheel to the washing machine, from the calculator to the computer, every innovation has relieved humanity of a task that once demanded our time and effort. But have we ever stopped to ask what those technologies gave us in return?

In this episode of My Many Selves, Damaris Nightingale explores a question that goes far beyond Artificial Intelligence. Rather than asking what AI will become, she asks a more profound question: What might humanity become because AI exists?

Together, we examine the hidden relationship between technology, time, attention, and consciousness. If every technological advancement has liberated a little more of our time, then AI may represent the greatest liberation of human attention in history. But that freedom comes with an equally profound responsibility.

Today, our liberated attention has become one of the world’s most valuable resources. Every platform, every notification, every advertisement, every headline, and every algorithm competes for it. The question is no longer whether we have attention. The question is where we choose to invest it.

Will we use this new freedom to accumulate more information, or to cultivate greater wisdom? Will we simply become more efficient, or will we become more human?

This episode invites you to rethink technology, consciousness, and your own future through a new lens: The Economics of Attention.

Because the future of humanity may not be determined by the technologies we create, but by what we choose to do with the attention they return to us.