…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 and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Herbert Simon a “Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World”, 1971. (via periodisme)
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