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Information technology in business and society

Information technology in business and society. Session 8 – Attention Economics Sean J. taylor. Administrativia. Assignment 2 online, d ue 2/25 at 1am Optional Web Design Tutorial on Friday 3:30-5:30 in KMC 4-90. The Dismal Science.

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Information technology in business and society

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  1. Information technology in business and society Session 8 – Attention Economics Sean J. taylor

  2. Administrativia • Assignment 2 online, due 2/25 at 1am • Optional Web Design Tutorial on Friday 3:30-5:30 in KMC 4-90

  3. The Dismal Science • “That population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and, • That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice.”

  4. “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.” • -- Herbert Simon

  5. “If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.”

  6.  "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.That sucks.“ • --Jeff Hammerbacher

  7. Next Class:Search and Advertising • Work on Assignment 2

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