Reading “The Inevitable” from Kevin Kelly, here a very interesting citation and passage:
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.
From Herbert Simon, a Nobel Prize-winning in 1971!
In a world of abundance, the only scarcity is human attention.
That means that our attention is precious and it’s a resource other players want, meaning this is where moneys follow.
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