One of the great ironies of information economics is that while information can be trivially copied and the information bandwidth continues to widen, the individual’s attention bandwidth is as narrow as ever. In information economics, post-scarcity reaches its reduction ad absurdum.
Predictor: Sirius, R.U.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, R.U. Sirius (real name, Ken Goffman), the co-founder of Mondo 2000, and St. Jude (Judy Milhon), a columnist for Mondo 2000 and member of the cypherpunks, write: ”One of the great ironies of information economics is that while information can be trivially copied and the information bandwidth continues to widen, the individual’s attention bandwidth is as narrow as ever. In information economics, post-scarcity reaches its reduction ad absurdum.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The Medium is the Message and the Message is Voyeurism
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.02/voyeur_pr.html
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