A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention

In 1971, the oft-quoted political scientist Herbert Simon predicted that in an information age, cultural producers (that’s designers, but also filmmakers, theater types, musicians, artists) would quickly face a shortage of attention. “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients,” he wrote. The more information, the less attention, and “the need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

Source: observatory.designobserver.com

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