# Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times

<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

Goldhaber seems very clairvoyant. His premise, or foundation for how he thinks about all this is all based on attention.

> His biggest worry, though, is that we still mostly fail to acknowledge that we live in a roaring attention economy. In other words, we tend to ignore his favorite maxim, from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”


Consider that you are playing that attention game against an infinite scale machine-learning environment that is playing simultaneously with a hundred million other people. **You will lose that game.** The best thing I do to manage attention is to avoid any system that uses algorithms to present content to me. I prefer content to be presented in time order, and nothing else.

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