Screenly: Cost

“What are you doing?” a man hissed.

And the wall screamed.

Every night, she paid the Screenly Cost . She paid in hours. Her capsule’s “Attention Meter” was connected to her screen. For every ad she watched, her rent went down by a fraction of a cent. But for every video she chose to watch—the comedy, the drama, the escape—she incurred a debt. The system called it “Engagement Leverage.”