Attention Economy


Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Interesting Items - Feb 13


David Brooks Makes Some Excellent Points Regarding the US Economy


Another Example of the Ineffectiveness of Government Subsidies



New Inventions Do Not Necessarily Improve Quality of Life

Shashi Tharoor eloquently articulates what some of us really feel:

“Indeed, there is an inverse relationship between the difficulty and expense of communication, on one hand, and the quality of what is communicated, on the other. When telegraph operators were paid by the word, and there was always the risk of garbled transmissions, messages were crisp, succinct, and to the point. When neither length nor complexity affects the cost of a message, however, the field is open for irrelevant and unnecessary communication.”