Mindful Awareness and the Rising Tide of Information

We live in a world of increasing information that threatens to overwhelm our attention. We will see how a 1971 paper foresaw the rise of what has come to be called the "attention economy", and how some of its recommendations may point us towards a sophisticated internal practice of mindful awareness to help solve the problem.

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References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenti...
Herbert Simon, “Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World”. In M. Greenberger (ed.) Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest. (Johns Hopkins Press, 1971): https://digitalcollections.library.cm...

Sutta mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/mn108/en/sujato

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