Poverty of Attention

I wish this quote could be read to me every time I click through more than five websites in five minutes:

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)

(Quote in today's A Word A Day message.)