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The Attention Economy
"The real scarcity isn’t content anymore. It’s attention."
Gaby Goldberg • Curators Are the New Creators
Attention becomes the only metric by which culture is judged, and what gets attention is dictated by equations developed by Silicon Valley engineers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The Internet is Destroying Your Attention: How to Survive the Attention Economy
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The two scarce elements of our economy are trust and attention.
Seth Godin • Trust and attention, the endless dance
Most of this came to him in the mid-1980s, when Mr. Goldhaber, a former theoretical physicist, had a revelation. He was obsessed at the time with what he felt was an information glut — that there was simply more access to news, opinion and forms of entertainment than one could handle. His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the w... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
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 som... See more