> “In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” > -- Herbert Simon While we have figured out taht "attenion is all it takes" for a machine to become intelligence, we ourselves are gradually letting our attention erode.