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Herbert Simon, "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World", 1971: > "In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of some
by karaterobot 4y ago
Herbert Simon, "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World", 1971:
> "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."
- shanusmagnus 4y agoThank you so much for this quote! The paper it's from is exactly what I needed right now. link: https://veryinteractive.net/pdfs/simon_designing-organizations-for-an-information-rich-world.pdf https://veryinteractive.net/pdfs/simon_designing-organizatio...
- pjmorris 4y agoThank you for the link. Another Simon quote from the panel discussion: > In an information-rich world, most of the cost of information is the cost incurred by the recipient. It is not enough to know how much it costs to produce and transmit information; we must also know how much it costs, in terms of scarce attention, to receive it.
- abyssin 4y agoThis is such a stimulating quote! It sounds like a promise that it's possible to regain some peace in the middle of a deluge.
- mc32 4y agoI wish it were actually information people were consuming, instead it’s really crass entertainment. It think Andy Grove nailed it, it’s about capturing eyeballs.
- seandoe 4y agoIt's still information, regardless of anybody's opinion of the content.
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- thenerdhead 4y agoTo add onto this. The poverty of attention means not paying enough attention to oneself. Which is a modern "meaning/identity crisis".
- oars 4y agoGreat quote, thank you.
- monkeydust 4y agoThis quote should be mandatory in handbook for how to write good emails. Maybe it's me but my tolerance for long, unwieldy and directionless emails that require unecessary mental strain to untangle has diminished to the point where I pretty much ignore unless from high above.