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As generations evolve, so do their interests and the platforms they use. And the FAANG constituents are finding this out the hard way. Each of them is seeing a drop in attention – the main currency of the system.
When Tim Berners Lee talks about how he designed the web, he uses an analogy from physics, describing his process as a quest to find “fundamental laws” which can generate a desired system: One of the beautiful things about physics is its ongoing quest to find simple rules that describe the behavior of very small, simple objects. Once found, these rules can often be scaled up to describe the behavior of monumental systems in the real world. […]
<p><span>Z/Yen's continuing quest to promote societal advance through better decisions about technology and finance has led to a major advance in world peace. PeaceLand is our new 'Metaprose' App that so consumes dictators' attention they have no time for real conflicts such as war or special military operations. We were inspired by Herbert Simon's (1916-2001) insights to distract the dictators, “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 tha...
How different would we think about AI if pioneers Allen Newell and Herbert Simon had support for the term of “complex information processing”?
The following monograph was written in the Spring of 1999 for completion of a doctoral seminar at the University of Michigan. I would add several new tw...