A quote by Herbert A. Simon
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A quote by Herbert A. Simon
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
Yet, ours is not truly an information economy. By definition, economics is the study of how a society uses its scarce resources. And information is not scarce - especially on the Net, where it is not only abundant, but overflowing. We are drowning in information, yet constantly increasing our generation of it. So a key question arises: Is there... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Your Attention Is Not a Resource
In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. - Herbert Simon, 1971