{"id":20666,"date":"2022-09-24T07:48:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=20666"},"modified":"2022-09-24T07:47:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:47:48","slug":"the-currency-of-the-new-economy-wont-be-money-but-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/09\/the-currency-of-the-new-economy-wont-be-money-but-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"The currency of the New Economy won&#8217;t be money, but attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to revisit the groundbreaking 1997 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mgoldh\">@mgoldh<\/a>\u00a0 paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/1997\/12\/es-attention\/#:~:text=The%20currency%20of%20the%20New,A%20radical%20theory%20of%20value.&amp;text=View%20saved%20stories.-,The%20currency%20of%20the%20New%20Economy%20won't%20be%20money,the%20US%20%2D%20have%20shifted%20dramatically.\">Wired<\/a> &#8220;Attention Shoppers! The currency of the New Economy won&#8217;t be money, but attention&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As is now obvious, the economies of the industrialized nations &#8211; and especially that of the US &#8211; have shifted dramatically. We&#8217;ve turned a corner toward an economy where an increasing number of workers are no longer involved directly in the production, transportation, and distribution of material goods, but instead earn their living managing or dealing with information in some form. Most call this an &#8220;information economy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to revisit the groundbreaking 1997 @mgoldh\u00a0 paper in Wired &#8220;Attention Shoppers! The currency of the New Economy won&#8217;t be money, but attention&#8221; As is now obvious, the economies of the industrialized nations &#8211; and especially that of the US &#8211; have shifted dramatically. We&#8217;ve turned a corner toward an economy where an increasing number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/09\/the-currency-of-the-new-economy-wont-be-money-but-attention\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The currency of the New Economy won&#8217;t be money, but attention<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,3774],"tags":[206,3913,3914,3912],"class_list":["post-20666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-computer-software","category-tech","tag-age","tag-attention","tag-deficit","tag-inofrmation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666\/revisions\/20668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}