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This is not to say that simply throwing more computers or Navy SEALs at a problem is the answer; the key lies not in the number of elements but in the nature of their integration—the wiring of trust and purpose.

Team of Teams

General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell

After 1850, however, attention appeared less as the faculty of a mind that was active and master of itself, than as a bodily reaction liable to be seized by capturing apparatuses. From that point on, we began busily measuring and exploiting the capturing alternatives, as exemplified by the new machines invented by experimental psychology (around Fechner, Wundt and their colleagues), the new media which were the allure of cities and world fairs (Kaiserpanoramas and other kinetoscopes), and practices like hypnosis.

The Ecology of Attention

Yves Citton

Another key influence is vitalism. The dynamic economy appealed to people looking for challenges and opportunities that made them feel alive.

Dynamism

Edmund S. Phelps, Raicho Bojilov, Hian Teck Hoon, and Gylfi Zoega

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