#60-The Attention Economy-with Guest Michael H. Goldhaber

<p class="western" align="left">The term “attention economy” has become a buzzword in our current zeitgeist. But 30 to 40 years ago Michael Goldhaber, who has a PhD in physics coupled with a passionate 1960’s brewed concern about social and political justice, began thinking and writing  about human attention as a scarce resource and made predictions about how the newly emerging internet would interact with our attention and eventually transition us to an <em>attention economy</em>. His early predictions were then rediscovered and described in a New York Times article published in Feb., 2021. Topics discussed in this episode include: <span style="font-size: medium;">the attention economy, how it contributes to misinformation and what we can all do can do to reduce the pollution in our information environments.</span></p>