what does collective attention mean
1 Collective Attention: a group of people paying attention to the same thing, with the group size varying in size from 2 to 6 billion. 2  Arms Race: The effect by which groups paying collective attention to something force individuals within the group to rapidly improve their skills and separate the group from outsiders.ut one effect is not a red herring, and that is the fact that the staircase of opportunity puts you in increasingly intense crucibles of collective co-creative attention. The Distillation Effect. Start with 1728 (12^3) people and let them learn widget-making in144 groups of 12, for 3000 hours.