This just came in on A Word A Day mailing list I'm on:
"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 Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)
Some food for thought.
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