Data Quote by Franklin Foer

“Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of…

— Franklin Foer

“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…

— Kevin Kelly

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and…

— Timothy Ferriss

“Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“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…

— Herbert A. Simon

“A wealth of information means a poverty of attention.”

— Daniel Goleman

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

— Anonymous

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and…

— Herbert Simon

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability -…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“Unfortunately, by forcing more and more value off the books as the world economy turns into an information economy, the ideal of “free” information…

— Jaron Lanier

“Abundant information wants to be free. Scarce information wants to be expensive.”

— Chris Anderson