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  • Bill Kutik​​ “Esther was the best proofreader The Harvard Crimson has seen in almost 150 years.
  • Esther Dyson is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor, philanthropist, and commentator.
  • Dyson graduated from Harvard in 1972, with a BA in economics.

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    0:33Intro. [Recording date: January 3, 2013.] Russ: My guest is Esther Dyson, author, investor, and my favorite title in a long time, Internet Court Jester. Welcome. Our topic for today, to start with, is an essay you wrote recently on what is called the Attention Economy, the idea that a lot of us spend time on the internet in very noncommercial ways. But I'm sure we are going to get into other issues as well. But let's start there. What do you mean by 'the Attention Economy'? Guest: Well, first, and somewhat ironically, I need to make sure to point your attention at Michael Goldhaber who originally--I'm not sure who originally coined the term or the concept but he was definitely there early. And he wrote a piece--[?] on it--I think 15 or 20 years ago. But it's this notion that one definition of economics is the study of scarcity, and attention is extremely scarce, so what are the economics of attention? And is it fungible? Is one person's attention worth the same as another person's? Obviously not. How do you quantify attention? How do you share it? All these kinds of things. And increasingly in our modern world attention is one of the few things that can't be duplicated or mass produced, though it can certainly be mass collected, if you like--that's what movie stars

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