“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” – Herbert A. Simon > 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. ‘Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World’ in Martin Greenberger (ed.) _Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest_ (1971) This is such an interesting quote given the glut of information that we all have constant access to.