In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. 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

This quote is made by Herbert Simon in 1971, a psychologist and economist who first theorized the concept of attention economics. This concept came out when the current world leaders were in their youth, I believe some of them knew it very well, and some made it into use to the maximum.

On the 13th of May, Trump visits Xijingping in Beijing with a bunch of high-level business men; a week later, Putin led another group of rich ...