Though he approaches the subject of an attention economy from a somewhat different angle than we're used to, the author, writing in the early 1980s, comes to th

Though he approaches the subject of an attention economy from a somewhat different angle than we're used to, the author, writing in the early 1980s, comes to the conclusion--all the more relevant today than it was in his time--that "computers are doing to communication / what fences did to pastures and cars did to streets."