A blog about technology, society, and complex information processing.

Poverty of Attention

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An information processing system consists of a set of memories and a set of information processes.

Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon, The Logic Theory Machine: A Complex Information Processing System (1956)

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Poverty of Attention is a blog about technology, society, and complex information processing. Herbert Simon once noted that “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” an aphorism that is all-to-relevant for the age of generative technologies.

It is written by Lucille Nguyen, a developer, technologist, and data scientist in industry.