Sunday, October 18, 2009
Quotable - What Does Information Consume?
“… 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 and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
Herbert Simon - 1971
Simon’s a pretty smart guy: Turing Award winner; Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics; and National Medal of Science winner. We probably ought to pay attention.
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