Information and Attention

In 1971, Herbert Simon gave a talk, “Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World” (M. Greenberger (Ed.) (1971), Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest . Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, pp 38-72). Simon, a 20th-century polymath, was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research into organizational decision-making processes. While Simon’s information-rich…