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# attention.economy
> **Attention economics** is an approach to the [management of information](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_management "Information management") that treats human [attention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention "Attention") as a scarce [commodity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity "Commodity") and applies [economic theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_theory "Economic theory") to solve various information management problems. According to [Matthew Crawford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Crawford "Matthew Crawford"), "Attention is a [resource](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource "Resource")—a person has only so much of it.
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy
>In a so-called attention economy, what better way to prove that youve paid attention to something than to remix it? Meet the folk music of the twenty-first century.
> - [[people.JaceClayton]]
- [[people.BruceSterling]]
- https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/daniel-estrada-on-bruce-sterlings-the-caryatids-as-a-model-for-the-attention-economy/2013/10/04
- [[people.JaronLanier]]
- https://www.quora.com/How-plausible-is-the-proposed-new-economy-that-Jaron-Lanier-proposes-in-his-book-Who-Owns-the-Future?share=1
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/07/05/really-could-the-internet-be-shrinking-the-economy-jaron-lanier-on-how-to-fix-it/
- [[people.AndyMatuschak]] note on Programmable attention
- https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zJrfPCbY7GcpV9asEc8NTVzXTAV4TvRFMuY6
## Adjacent
- [[concepts.playlisting]]
- [[concepts.memory]]
- [[incubation.mediamateriality]]
- [[concepts.cryptoart]]
- [[incubation.concepts.post-digital]]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction