AEON: When the Internet Stopped Selling to Humans
Google built a $280 billion empire selling your attention to advertisers. Facebook monetized your scroll. TikTok optimized your watch time. Then AI agents arrived. They don't scroll. Don't click ads. Don't hesitate at checkout. The attention economy just realized its customers evolved beyond attention. The Advertising Model That Hit a Wall Internet 1.0-2.0 economics: Show ads → Capture attention → Generate revenue AI agent economics: Identify need → Execute transaction → Move to next task Advertisers optimized for 2.3 seconds of human attention. AI agents make purchasing decisions in 0.0007 seconds and never see the banner ads surrounding the buy button. The $500 billion advertising industry built on human psychology suddenly faces customers without psychology. The Execution Economy AEON Built Humans browse. AI executes. Humans compare. AI calculates optimal choice algorithmically. Humans hesitate. AI settles payments at computational speed. AEON doesn't monetize atte...