@booklet {11604, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Price of Attention{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {105-120}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

After two major pandemics, a country has transformed itself using sophisticated algorithms, opening up green spaces in cities, defunding police and funding support systems, and other \“radical liberal\” policies. The story takes place as a referendum is about to be held to choose between continued decision-making by algorithm using a very complicated system of voting designed to avoid fraud and decision-making by citizen panels.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-262-54240-1 }, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {Gideon Lichfield} }