"... 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 in "Computers, Communications and the Public Interest," 1971 |