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, Recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
and the A.M. Turing Award, the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science”
and the A.M. Turing Award, the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science”
2 comments:
a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention for the better half, and a need to be very careful where one allocates the available attention lest one receives a swift kick accompanied by the words 'ok honey you have fun, i'm going to bed.'
Indeed. Wealth of information and poverty of attention are a nasty combination. Going off-grid occasionally will be Big Project No. 2 for me.
I think H and the boy will be thankful when I do it, too.
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