> In the Information Economy _everything_ is plentiful --- except attention. I was a little surprised to read this in something from 1992 so I got curious how

> In the Information Economy _everything_ is plentiful --- except attention. I was a little surprised to read this in something from 1992 so I got curious how long people have been making this point. Apparently a long time -- here's another one from 1971: > 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. (https://exformation.williamrinehart.com/i/60467201/a-short-history-of-the-term https://exformation.williamrinehart.com/i/60467201/a-short-h...)