| Nobel laureate economist Herbert Simon points out: "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." (Scientific American, Sep 95, p.201) Hence, as the amount of information increases, so does the need for filtering processes which help decision makers find that which is most important and meaningful. |
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