As we get bombarded by Facebook alerts, e-mails and RSS feeds, I thought this quote from 1978 Nobel Prize winning scientist Herbert Simon was rather appropriate:
"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."
How true is that?
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A perfect description from a quote that dates almost 30 years ago.
Posted by: Stephen Davies | July 31, 2007 at 11:47 PM
Plus ca change (I'm saying that a lot at the moment).
Posted by: Andrew Smith | August 01, 2007 at 12:49 PM