Multiply this many fold, and it indicates how an economy not involving money , but based strictly on attention, might work.
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Michael H. Goldhaber, presenter
Hi. Welcome to this OLLI course.
About Me
- Michael H. Goldhaber
- I've been interested in and writing on Internet-related issues since well before there was a worldwide web, starting with an attempt to understand what I then termed "micro-electronic networks" and then the "information economy." By the late eighties I had realized that what is scarce is less information than attention, and began to focus on "the attention economy," a term I coined, though others have used it later with a narrower meaning. See "The Attention Economy and the Net" http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/519/440 Another long-held interest of mine is human consciousness and how it changes. That led to my 2004 article "The mentality of Homo interneticus: Some Ongian postulates" http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1155/1075 I have a blog http://goldhaber.org and a small consulting business http://mhgoldhaber.com
Here is another approach, a map of knowledge produced in a NY Times article. Think of it as the Dewey decimal system for libraries in reverse. Instead of a number for each book and category, it is a number for each reader and type. A pattern certainly, but meaning what?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html?_r=2&emc=eta1