{
  "id": 18036941,
  "title": "Quote of the day by Herbert A. Simon: \"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/quote-of-the-day-by-herbert-a-simon-a-wealth-of-information-creates-a",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-03T23:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechRadar",
    "slug": "techradar",
    "url": "https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-herbert-a-simon-a-wealth-of-information-creates-a-poverty-of-attention-a-thesis-for-the-modern-digital-economy"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Herbert A. Simon, a renowned American economist, once foresaw the future of information circulation in a significant essay. In a quote that remains pertinent today, Simon noted that the abundance of data and information is a resource that is consumed by the limited and finite attention of individuals. As time progresses and data continues to surge year over year, the challenge lies in how people manage their focus amidst this wealth of information. This concept contributed to the emergence of the attention economy, a system where human attention is treated as a valuable commodity that businesses, platforms, and websites compete for. In the modern attention economy, companies strive to capture this attention, often employing synthetic data generated by advanced technologies like language models to create engaging content.",
  "summary": "The amount of information circulating all around us is rising exponentially",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}