Overcoming information overload with circular attention economies

Navigating the perils and promise of the digital age requires, according to author James Williams, that “we give the right sort of attention to the right sort of things... A major function, if not the primary purpose, of information technology should be to advance this end.”

there is a fundamentally social aspect of attention that cannot and should not be automated. Shared attention is part of what makes us human. We care about what human peers and experts find interesting, not just what opaque algorithms recommend.