By 1997 Michael Goldhaber was explicitly framing scarce human attention as a central economic resource of the Internet.

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"By 1997 Michael Goldhaber was explicitly framing scarce human attention as a central economic resource of the Internet."

Goldhaber argued that online information could become abundant while human attention remained limited, directly framing attention as a scarce resource of the emerging networked economy.

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Source title The attention economy and the Net

Source authors Michael H. Goldhaber

Source year 1997

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