{"id":737,"date":"2009-03-07T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T23:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/?p=737"},"modified":"2009-03-07T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T23:45:48","slug":"poverty-of-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/2009\/03\/07\/poverty-of-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty of Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We have to look at today\u2019s economy and say, \u201cWhat is it that\u2019s really scarce in the Internet economy?\u201d And the answer is attention. [Psychologist] Herb Simon recognized this many years ago. He said, \u201cA wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.\u201d So being able to capture someone\u2019s attention at the right time is a very valuable asset.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a title=\"Interview: Hal Varian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinseyquarterly.com\/Hal_Varian_on_how_the_Web_challenges_managers_2286\">an interesting interview with Hal Varian<\/a>, professor of information sciences at UC Berkeley and Google&#8217;s chief economist. Other topics include the history of innovation, how the web challenges management, computer-mediated transactions, auction models, and why &#8220;the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to look at today\u2019s economy and say, \u201cWhat is it that\u2019s really scarce in the Internet economy?\u201d And the answer is attention. [Psychologist] Herb Simon recognized this many years ago. He said, \u201cA wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.\u201d So being able to capture someone\u2019s attention at the right time is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/2009\/03\/07\/poverty-of-attention\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poverty of Attention<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[27,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}