We live in an attention economy. It's not a new idea. Yet, rather than paying for services and products that give us control over our attention, websites are free (gratis) at the expense of our attention. Something went terribly wrong.
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I conflate attention management and information retrieval often. Google puts the World's info at my finger tips -- incredible! ...but, an hour after a fleeting idea, I'm reading about bugs in Madagascar. Fast access is often at odds with the intentional allocation of attention.pic.twitter.com/WKy0BUBQLB
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Interesting, not heard the term "attention management" before ... any citations to offer in that line of thinking?
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The attention economy literature treats it as a scare resource. I don't think they say management though, it's usually allocation. But, it's been a while since I read any of it so don't count on me ;)
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