As Herbert Simon wrote in Computers, Communications and the Public Interest in 1971, “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.”
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Herb Simon on attention
Posted in Attention on March 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
