What Simon identified far earlier than most is that as a logical matter, the rising salience of information to a given society implies necessarily a rise in the value of attention. Which is to say: the information age must also be the attention age. The two are inseparable because information consumes attention. The more information there is, the more competition there is for attention, which is by definition scarce. The more demand there is for a scarce resource, the more valuable it is.
What (Herbert) Simon...
