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The Price of Information

The price of information has not only gone into free fall in the last few years, it is still in free fall now, it will continue to fall long before it hits bottom, and when it does whole categories of currently lucrative businesses will be either transfigured unrecognizably or completely wiped out, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Clay Shirky (1995)

…substitute creative content for information in the above quote, and you see what’s happening now in film, photography, music, etc.

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Attention and Information

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 Simon

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David on Opportunity

Most, if not every, opportunity in life begins with a conversation. Want more opportunities? Actively pursue more conversations with more people.

David duChemin