This reminds me of a prescient quote.. 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 ..1978 Nobel laureate in economics and the Turing prize
________________________________ From: Shoba Narayan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 9:46:12 AM Subject: Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan) > > Have you ever tried going a few weeks without consuming news or > analysis or news media of any form - I mean cold turkey, no way to > whet your appetite. No TV, no radio, no blogs, no podcasts, no > magazines, no newspapers. It's remarkably productive. This sounds fascinating even though I've never tried it. I've tried being away from cellphone for a month. On a practical note, where does one go to get away from the news though?
