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“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, ‘Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World’ in Martin Greenberger (ed.) Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest (1971)
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@johnnylogic It's great to pull these back up from the past, as so many people today don't realize how far back the related topics go.
Conversely, it's also good to see that we are making progress by comparing some of the more recent work to that which came out before the digital revolution really took off.